#b-cell-all

[ follow ]
#cancer-research
Cancer
fromNature
3 days ago

Why some cancer-fighting immune cells lose their strength inside tumours

Mitochondrial health in dendritic cells is crucial for effective immune response against tumors, potentially enhancing cancer immunotherapy effectiveness.
from24/7 Wall St.
3 days ago

5 Biotechs That Big Pharma Could Snap Up as Oncology M&A Heats Up

Incyte tops this list due to its rare combination of commercial scale, cash generation, and pipeline depth. The company posted FY2025 revenue of $5.14 billion, up 21.2% YoY, anchored by Jakafi generating $828.2 million in Q4 2025 alone (+7% YoY) and Opzelura delivering $207.3 million (+28% YoY). With $3.58 billion in cash and 14 pivotal clinical trials underway, Incyte offers an acquirer immediate revenue, margin expansion potential, and a deep oncology pipeline spanning KRASG12D, CDK2 inhibition, and mutCALR.
Venture
Cancer
fromSlate Magazine
6 days ago

I Was Once Given Just Three Years to Live. A Specific Kind of Hope Could Help Cancer Patients Like Me.

A hip injury worsened over a year, leading to an MRI that revealed serious health issues requiring medical attention.
fromWashingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
1 week ago

Meet the Leaders Helping to Create a World Without Blood Cancer - Washingtonian

The funds raised through Visionaries of the Year are used for research to advance lifesaving therapies like immunotherapy, genomics and personalized medicine, which are saving lives today.
Fundraising
fromNature
2 weeks ago

Masked mitochondria slip into cells to treat disease in mice

When mitochondria are exposed to tissue or blood, they lose the electrical gradient across their outer membrane. Mitochondria that lack such a gradient are recognized by a cell's internal machinery as damaged and quickly destroyed. The vast majority of previous studies involved injecting 'naked' mitochondria directly into the bloodstream or tissue sites, but the approach isn't very efficient, so researchers often have to use 'ridiculous' doses of mitochondria.
Medicine
Cancer
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

I have stage four cancer there will be no cure, but death isn't necessarily imminent: this is how it feels to live in the long middle

Stage four lung cancer transforms breath into a finite currency, dictating daily life and relationships amidst medical advancements that extend survival.
Medicine
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 weeks ago

A silent immune attack on the kidney could be treated by new drugs, if it can be found early

IgA nephropathy is an autoimmune kidney disease affecting up to 40 percent of patients with eventual dialysis or transplant needs, but emerging precision therapies can preserve kidney function if diagnosed early.
#car-t-cell-therapy
Medicine
fromNews Center
1 month ago

CAR T-cell Therapy Improves Survival in Relapsed or Refractory Lymphoma - News Center

CAR T-cell therapy lisocabtagene maraleucel significantly improved progression-free and overall survival in patients with relapsed or refractory marginal zone lymphoma.
Medicine
fromNews Center
1 month ago

CAR T-cell Therapy Improves Survival in Relapsed or Refractory Lymphoma - News Center

CAR T-cell therapy lisocabtagene maraleucel significantly improved progression-free and overall survival in patients with relapsed or refractory marginal zone lymphoma.
Medicine
fromSlate Magazine
3 weeks ago

At 42, With Three Young Kids, I Got a Diagnosis That Would Have Me Dead in a Year. That Was Somehow Just the Beginning.

A 42-year-old man was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, a rare and aggressive bile duct cancer with a 10% five-year survival rate, after initially presenting with jaundice symptoms.
Cancer
fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

Stop ignoring subtle signs of cancer. A doctor explains when to get medical help.

Early cancer symptoms are often subtle and easily missed, including unexplained fatigue, persistent pain, and digestive changes; persistent symptoms lasting over a week warrant medical evaluation.
Cancer
fromwww.bbc.com
3 weeks ago

Proton beam hope for asbestos cancer patients

A proton beam trial offers realistic hope for mesothelioma patients by delivering high-dose radiation precisely to affected areas, potentially increasing two-year survival rates from 30% to 50%.
#breast-cancer
Science
fromwww.nature.com
1 month ago

Host control of persistent EpsteinBarr virus infection

Host non-genetic factors (HIV, immunosuppression, smoking) and genetic variation at MHC/HLA strongly influence blood Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) load during persistent infection.
Cancer
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

This is how we do it: His cancer diagnosis hit the reset button we've built up quite the collection of toys'

Prostate cancer surgery forced open communication about intimacy, transforming a long marriage's sexual relationship into more frequent, satisfying encounters through honest dialogue and planning.
Medicine
fromNews Center
1 month ago

Trashing Cancer's 'Undruggable' Proteins - News Center

Northwestern scientists developed protein-like polymers that direct cancer-driving proteins to cellular degradation machinery, causing cancer cell death and tumor growth inhibition.
fromwww.nature.com
1 month ago

Lipid metabolism drives dietary effects on T cell ferroptosis and immunity

Ferroptosis, a major mechanism of non-apoptotic programmed cell death, critically regulates the homeostasis and functionality of peripheral CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. Here we demonstrate that in mouse, resistance of T cells to ferroptosis depends critically on the composition of standard rodent diets, and that dietary effects on ferroptosis have a crucial role in regulation of T cell homeostasis and immune responses.
Medicine
Science
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Cats may hold clues for human cancer treatment

Genetic mapping of nearly 500 pet-cat tumours reveals many cancer-driving genes mirror human cancers, linking feline and human tumour biology and suggesting shared treatment avenues.
Cancer
fromNature
1 month ago

Cancer blood tests are everywhere. Do they really work?

Multi-cancer early detection blood tests show promise but lack regulatory approval and rigorous trial evidence, with initial results indicating limited effectiveness in improving cancer outcomes.
OMG science
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

Why did that cancer cell become drug-resistant? - Harvard Gazette

TimeVault records and stores cellular gene-expression history inside living cells, enabling retrieval of past gene-activity information to study differentiation, stress responses, adaptation, and drug resistance.
Science
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

'Remarkable' new cat cancer genome could benefit humans

Cats and humans develop similar cancers due to shared tumor-causing genetic mutations, suggesting cats could improve cancer research and treatments for both species.
Cancer
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Bacteria Engineered to Eat Tumors From the Inside

Researchers engineered Clostridium sporogenes bacteria to consume tumor cells from inside, offering a potential alternative to traditional cancer treatments.
Public health
fromIndependent
1 month ago

'I was 39 when diagnosed with the same cancer as James Van Der Beek - I had no risk factors and no family history'

Colorectal cancer can affect younger adults; screening can detect treatable stage 2 disease and symptom awareness is essential.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Beyond Remission: Supporting Oncology Survivorship

Cancer survivorship transforms family relationships into a new, ongoing relational terrain requiring role renegotiation, communication adjustments, and systemic therapeutic support.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

Lung cancer hijacks the brain to trick the immune system

For years, scientists have viewed cancer as a localized glitch in which cells refuse to stop dividing. But a new study suggests that, in certain organs, tumors actively communicate with the brain to trick it into protecting them. Scientists have long known that nerves grow into some tumors and that tumors containing lots of nerves usually lead to a worse prognosis.
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

Cancer Survival Rates Are the Highest They've Been since the 1970s

On Tuesday the American Cancer Society (ACS) released its annual report on cancer statistics in the U.S., and it offered a rare bit of good news: the proportion of people who were alive at least five years after a cancer diagnosis hit a record high. The report found that, among all cancer patients diagnosed between 2015 and 2021 in the U.S., the survival rate at the five-year mark relative to those who didn't have cancer was 70 percent.
Public health
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Daily briefing: Cancer cells stay hidden using stolen mitochondria

Cancer cells acquire immune-cell mitochondria that activate a mitochondrial pathway enabling immune evasion and lymph-node invasion.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Cancer might evade immune defences by stealing mitochondria

Cancer cells acquire mitochondria from immune cells to weaken those immune cells and activate type I interferon signaling that promotes lymph-node invasion.
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

Americans living longer after cancer diagnosis - Harvard Gazette

New findings on cancer survival rates offer hope for the more than 2 million Americans diagnosed each year. Seven out of 10 Americans diagnosed with cancer now survive five years or more, according to the American Cancer Society, a 7 percent increase since the mid-1990s, when the rate stood at 63 percent. The survival rate data - from patients diagnosed with cancer between 2015 and 2021 - showed, significantly, that those with high-mortality cancers and advanced diagnoses had the largest gains.
Public health
Cancer
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Douglas Hanahan, biologist: We don't necessarily need a cure, what we really need is cancer without disease'

Cancer cells acquire hallmarks: uncontrolled proliferation, evasion of growth barriers, resistance to programmed death, and relative immortality, driving tumor diversity and treatment variability.
fromwww.nature.com
1 month ago

Author Correction: The genomic landscape of response to EGFR blockade in colorectal cancer

In Extended Data Fig. 8 of this article, a micrograph shown in the left column (panel AZD) was inadvertently duplicated during figure preparation. The intended image was meant to show phospho-ERK (P-ERK) levels in a MAP2K1-mutant patient-derived xenograft (PDX) exposed to the MEK inhibitor AZD6244 (AZD). However, this image was accidentally overlaid with a micrograph from Extended Data Fig. 10 (left column, panel PAN), which displays P-ERK levels in an EGFR-mutant PDX exposed to panitumumab (PAN).
Public health
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Widow says her life can't go back to normal until brain tumour treatment changed

Hospitals should freeze surgically removed brain tumour tissue to enable future immunotherapy vaccine use and research, improving treatment options for patients.
Science
fromScienceDaily
2 months ago

Vitamin A may be helping cancer hide from the immune system

Retinoic acid signaling in cancer cells and dendritic cells suppresses anti-tumor immunity, and blocking this pathway restores vaccine effectiveness.
Medicine
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Scientists say the secret to curing cancer could live in your pet CAT

Genetic alterations in common cat cancers mirror those in humans, revealing shared mechanisms and opportunities for cross-species targeted therapies.
fromJezebel
2 months ago

You've Never Been More Likely to Get Cancer, Survive Cancer, or Be Bankrupted by Cancer

We're living in a curious moment for the status of cancer diagnosis and treatment, within the United States. The overall rate of prevalence for diseases that fall under the wide, wide title of "cancers" is increasing. At the same time, steady improvement to the standard of care and treatment, and newer breakthroughs in therapeutics, have raised survival rates higher than they've ever been before. But for all too many patients, the question is whether they'll be able to afford those
Public health
Medicine
fromNews Center
1 month ago

Targeting STING Pathway Triggers Cytotoxic and Immune Responses Against Meningioma - News Center

Activation of the STING pathway using the STING agonist 8803 can target both meningioma tumor cells and intratumoral immune cells to produce potent antitumor responses.
fromNews Center
1 month ago

Targeting Cellular Mechanisms May Improve Immune Response in Chronic Infections - News Center

During viral infection and in the case of cancer, CD4+ helper T-cells release cytokines, or small signaling proteins, that activate and "give permission" to other immune cells to control and clear viral pathogens. In certain viral infections, such as lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), which is spread by infected rodents, CD4+ T-cells differentiate into different subpopulations, including one subset of progenitor CD4+ T-cells that replenish type 1 helper (Th1) and follicular helper (Tfh) T-cells.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Microbiota-induced T cell plasticity enables immune-mediated tumour control - Nature

Although specific bacterial taxa have been associated with favourable clinical responses to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) in cancer patients12,13,18,19,20,21,22, the mechanisms by which the intestinal microbiota influences anti-tumour immune responses remain poorly defined. Products of the microbiota, including metabolites23,24,25 and innate receptor ligands26, may reprogramme myeloid cells27, lowering the activation threshold for antigen presentation and thereby facilitating priming and activation of tumour-reactive T cells.
Cancer
fromNews Center
2 months ago

Identifying Mechanisms Supporting Nanoparticle Therapy for Autoimmune Diseases - News Center

We knew that if you inject these nanoparticles into an animal model, the nanoparticles get taken up by antigen presenting cells and this resulted in increased regulatory T-cells and decreased inflammatory disease. However, we did not know how this happens,
Science
Medicine
fromNature
1 month ago

Innovative CAR-T therapy destroys cancer cells without dangerous side effects

CART4-34 T cells target IGHV4-34–bearing cancer B cells, destroying tumors as effectively as CD19 CAR-T while sparing healthy B cells and preserving immune function.
Cancer
fromNews Center
1 month ago

Combination Treatment May Slow Disease Progression in Advanced Sarcoma - News Center

Cabozantinib plus temozolomide, given orally, showed potential to slow progression of advanced leiomyosarcoma and merits further clinical evaluation.
fromNature
2 months ago

Why cancer can come back years later - and how to stop it

When Lisa Dutton was declared free of breast cancer in 2017, she took a moment to celebrate with family and friends, even though she knew her cancer journey might not be over. As many as one-third of people whose breast tumours are cleared see the disease come back, sometimes decades later. Many other cancers are known to recur in the years following an initial treatment, some at much higher rates.
Medicine
Medicine
fromNature
1 month ago

CAR-T therapy provides relief for children with autoimmune diseases

Personalized cell therapy reset the immune system and reduced severe symptoms and organ damage in eight treatment-resistant children and adolescents with autoimmune disorders.
Medicine
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Simple blood test can predict which breast cancer treatment will work best, study finds

A blood test measuring circulating tumour DNA predicts breast cancer treatment response before or within four weeks, enabling alternative therapies and avoiding ineffective drugs.
Cancer
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

Scientists may have found key to treating hidden cancer growths

Blocking MYC-driven immune suppression exposes pancreatic tumours to the immune system, causing dramatic tumour shrinkage in animals with intact immunity.
Medicine
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Married couple share same cancer diagnosis

A married couple were both incidentally diagnosed with left-kidney tumours and underwent robotic removal by the same surgeon at East Kent University Hospital.
Medicine
fromNews Center
2 months ago

How Inflammation Fuels Blood Cancer Risk - News Center

TP53-mutant hematopoietic stem cells gain advantage under chronic inflammation via NLRP1 inflammasome activation and altered RNA processing, driving clonal expansion and leukemia risk.
Medicine
fromNews Center
2 months ago

Non-invasive Approach Predicts Chemotherapy Response in Glioblastoma - News Center

A new non-invasive method may better identify glioblastoma patients responding to chemotherapy, enabling timelier treatment decisions.
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

A vaccine to prevent colon cancer shows promising results

Eduardo Vilar-Sanchez has spent more than 10 years pursuing a goal that seemed very distant, but which he now sees as a little closer: to develop a preventive vaccine against cancer. The physician and researcher is leading a study that presented the first promising results of a colon cancer vaccine in a small group of patients suffering from a rare disease that makes them 17 times more likely to develop colon cancer than the general population.
Medicine
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say

As for side effects, the companies reported that little had changed from previous analyses; adverse events were similar between the two groups. The top side effects linked to the vaccine were fatigue, injection site pain, and chills. The results "highlight the potential of a prolonged benefit" of the vaccine combined with Keytruda in patients with high-risk melanoma," Kyle Holen, a senior vice president at Moderna, said. They also "illustrate mRNA's potential in cancer care," he said, noting that the company has eight more Phase 2 and Phase 3 trials going for mRNA vaccines against a variety of other cancers, including lung, bladder, and kidney cancers.
Medicine
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

'Weight-loss jab helped me find my cancer'

The cancer was fastacting, and if I'd left it even six months, the outcome could have been much worse,
Medicine
Medicine
fromBusiness Matters
2 months ago

Why Early Diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma Can Save Lives

Early diagnosis of multiple myeloma significantly improves treatment outcomes and prevents irreversible organ damage, increasing survival and quality of life.
Medicine
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

These 4 promising breakthroughs are bringing HIV researchers closer to a cure - LGBTQ Nation

Significant scientific advances have produced promising combination therapies and experimental approaches that have eliminated HIV in rare cases but no widely scalable cure exists yet.
[ Load more ]