Growing up on Washington state’s Mercer Island in the 1960s and ’70s, the writer Caroline Fraser got used to hearing people ...

After all, killer T cells aren’t turned on willy-nilly—they only ... CD8+ T cells were much more abundant in E4 than E3 mice. This held true in human postmortem brain samples, where Halters found ...

Amoebas don’t usually make headlines. But Entamoeba histolytica, a single-celled killer with a taste for human cells, may ...

"We still don't have a standard, optimized therapy for children with cancer, especially children with brain cancer." Natural killer cells are a critical part of the human immune system, but they ...

Scientists have discovered that electrical currents may make Natural Killer ... brain tumors to electric currents via a simple hat worn by patients) evoked an even more deadly response from NK cells.

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 ...

But in the new true-crime series Unknown Serial Killers of America on Oxygen, you'll meet a less familiar cast of ruthless killers whose actions are just as gruesome as their more famous counterparts.

Yale researchers have uncovered a way to make a type of white blood cells known as natural killer cells — which kill infected ... system cell signaling,” said Chen. “And this was true across multiple ...

Cytotoxic T cells are star players in the adaptive immune system, enforcing protection against invading viruses or cancer cells. However, evidence has been mounting that the cells may also deal a ...

That’s the premise of Hulu‘s true ... killer. Sasha was shot and killed, her hands had been bound by Duct tape, and her body was discovered in remote area in Arizona. Because she carried a ...

For the past decade, medical researchers have been growing living, miniature replicas of parts of the human brain from stem cells. Such brain “organoids,” as they’re called, have always ...

As women age, they produce an increasing number of “killer” immune cells, which hunt down and destroy infected cells. This discovery, and the fact that the same isn’t true of men ...