How serious is FDA warning about revolutionary blood-cancer treatment?

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher details promise, peril of CAR T-cell therapy, which enlists body’s immune system to fight disease.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Dec. 7, 2023 • ~10 min

New study explains how exercise reduces chronic inflammation

Research in mice shows that exercise mobilizes inflammation-countering T cells, lowering levels of interferon — a key driver of chronic inflammation, inflammatory diseases, and aging.

Ekaterina Pesheva • harvard
Nov. 3, 2023 • ~8 min

Gut microbes found to help mend damaged muscles in mice

A Harvard-led study shows that the gut microbiota acts as the training camp for a class of immune cells that are recruited to heal muscle injury.

Ilima Loomis • harvard
March 6, 2023 • ~9 min

Interaction between immune factors triggers cancer-promoting chronic inflammation

Harvard researchers found that interaction between immune factors triggers cancer-promoting chronic inflammation, setting the stage for the development of skin cancer associated with chronic dermatitis and colorectal cancer in patients with colitis.

Sue McGreevey • harvard
Feb. 11, 2019 • ~4 min

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