All of us produce a growth factor—called IL-15—which effectively protects us from cancers. Its role is to boost the production of immune cells that can rapidly detect and kill cancer cells ...

Phase I dose escalation and expansion study of PRAME T-cell receptor (TCR) engineered IL15-transduced cord blood–derived natural killer (NK) cells in patients with recurrent and/or refractory melanoma ...

Researchers from the Stem Cells and Cancer team at the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute and the Hospital del Mar Research Institute have developed a method to confidently produce blood ...

Aggressive natural killer cell leukemia is a rare blood cancer with a poor outlook. Read about its symptoms, causes, treatment, and more.

Off-the-shelf natural killer cell therapy with logic gates elicits complete remissions in relapsed or refractory blood cancers. News release. American Association for Cancer Research. April 27, 2025.

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...

The immune systems of cancer patients are highly disrupted, with those who have a higher number of immune cells in their blood having a better survival rate, finds a new study that uses a ...

A new type of cell-based immunotherapy shows promise for B-cell lymphomas and - due to innovations in manufacturing - could make future cellular immunotherapies less expensive and more accessible ...

An investigational induced pluripotent stem cell-derived CAR natural killer cell therapy was well tolerated both as monotherapy and in combination with rituximab among patients with B-cell ...

News • Research into new therapies How natural killer cells could fight leukemia more effectively Every year, some 13,000 people in Germany are diagnosed with leukemia. Despite intensive chemotherapy, ...

Human blood stem cells have been made in a laboratory for the first time, which could significantly improve how we treat certain types of cancer. The lab-grown cells have so far only been tested ...

Genetic cloaking of healthy cells opens door to universal blood cancer therapy Blood stem cells are being engineered to protect them from lethal therapies.