Supercharged ‘natural killer’ cells could become a potent way to reset a disordered immune system — and thus quench some autoimmune disorders. Results from two small clinical trials suggest that ...

"Why do immune cells that are supposed to eliminate viruses suddenly turn against our own body?" There are instances where killer T cells—which are meant to precisely remove virus-infected ...

Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells represent a distinctive subset of lymphocytes that bridge the innate and adaptive immune systems. Characterised by a semi‐invariant T cell receptor (TCR) and ...

UCSF scientists have developed a “molecular GPS” to guide immune cells into the brain and kill tumors without harming healthy tissue. It is the first living cell therapy that can navigate through the ...

As the trained killers of the immune system, cytotoxic T cells silently save our lives every day—vanquishing viruses before they can run amok, and putting nascent cancer cells out of business before ...