Inga Rødahl from the Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM) at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH) is defending her thesis, titled "Features of innate lymphoid cells in human fetal tissues and ...

NK cells are unlike T ... The current work provides a foundation for clinical testing of anti-HIV NuKES. "This exciting improvement in NK cell therapy gives me hope not just for its applications ...

Unmodified natural killer (NK) cells work differently from the T-cells upon ... Results from an early-stage safety trial in B-cell lymphoma have not shown any incidence of cytokine release ...

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it activates other proteins involved in this process. Plk1 is also ...

For cell and gene therapy, a consistent supply of quality starting material is vital that is maintained throughout the ...

The immune system responds to viral infections by introducing a complex interplay of immune cells and factors, whose goal is to eliminate the intruding pathogen. One such effector cell in the ...

A team of researchers from the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Pompeu Fabra University has developed a new tool that allows modifying these NK cells ...

Natural killer cell deficiency should be considered in patients susceptible to herpes virus or papillomavirus with persistently decreased NK cell function.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of primary liver cancer, accounts for about 75–85% of all liver cancer cases. Immune checkpoint ...

Certain subsets of immune NK cells were altered in the blood of people with ALS, and could serve as therapeutic targets, a ...