‘Factory’ implant shows promise for fighting several cancers

"This research represents an important step forward in the quest to provide more effective treatments for patients battling metastatic cancers."

Silvia Cernea Clark-Rice • futurity
April 15, 2025 ~5 min

New strategy puts targets on brain cancer cells

Researchers have identified a possible way to make glioblastoma cells vulnerable to different types of immunotherapy.

Julia Evangelou Strait-WUSTL • futurity
Nov. 11, 2024 ~7 min


New therapy may improve spinal cord injury recovery

Researchers have designed, in mice, an way to minimize the damage from a spinal cord injury through the use of engineered immune cells.

Marta Wegorzewska-WUSTL • futurity
Sept. 25, 2024 ~6 min

Early imaging can reveal if melanoma immunotherapy will work

"...imaging tumors early can improve how clinicians develop personalized treatment plans for each patient."

Kelsey Geesler - Penn • futurity
Feb. 13, 2024 ~5 min

Why cancer immunotherapy can cause colitis

"Once we identified the mechanism causing the colitis, we could then develop ways to overcome this problem..."

Nicole Fawcett-Michigan • futurity
Jan. 8, 2024 ~5 min

‘Reprogrammed’ cells may help glioblastoma resist treatment

Glioblastoma is one of the most treatment-resistant cancers. A new study offers clues as to how it can aggressively resist immunotherapy.

Brandi Wampler-Notre Dame • futurity
Dec. 13, 2023 ~5 min

Cancer drug gets immune cells back in the fight

In mouse models of different cancers, a new drug slowed tumor growth, extended lifespan, and boosted the efficacy of immunotherapy.

Christine Sinatra-UT Austin • futurity
Oct. 9, 2023 ~6 min

Engineered ‘tails’ tame killer T cells for immunotherapy

Fusing a molecular tail onto the engineered T cells used in immunotherapy can inhibit their proclivity to attack each other, say researchers.

Bill Hathaway-Yale • futurity
July 28, 2023 ~3 min


New Hodgkin lymphoma treatment shines in clinical trial

"We hypothesized that the newer treatment would turn out to be most beneficial for patients, but the magnitude of the benefit exceeded our expectations."

Leslie Orr-Rochester • futurity
June 9, 2023 ~6 min

Breast cancer drugs face a ‘whack-a-mole’ problem

Researchers have discovered for the first time how deadly hard-to-treat breast cancers persist after chemotherapy.

Keith Brannon-Tulane • futurity
Jan. 3, 2023 ~5 min

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