Scientists have discovered key genetic factors that determine whether a T cell acts as a powerful disease fighter or enters ...

Our immune system implements an array of strategies to combat threatening infections. White blood cells called cytotoxic T ...

A new predictive framework reprograms T cells to sustain immune memory while preserving their ability to fight cancer and infections.

A multi-institutional study led by researchers at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and UC San Diego has uncovered new genetic rules that determine ...

This image shows killer T cells surrounding and attacking a cancer cell. A new atlas developed by researchers at UC San Diego could make it possible to design custom T cells for immunotherapy to ...

For San Diego researchers and the wider immunotherapy community, the atlas functions as a practical roadmap. It does not ...

Cancer immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that harnesses the immune system to fight cancer cells. The treatment involves CD8⁺ T cells, also known as killer T cells, which play a crucial role ...

A groundbreaking study published in Research (2025, DOI: 10.34133/research.0545) has elucidated the molecular mechanisms by which protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) regulates CD8+ T cell-mediated immune ...

Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center and the University of Oxford have found that a cellular housekeeping function called autophagy—by which cell components are broken down and recycled—plays a ...

Even when immune memory cells form in the lung after influenza infection, insufficient dietary iron leaves them less able to mount a strong antiviral response, revealing how nutrition can shape ...