UCSF scientists found a precise way to turn on cancer-fighting immune cells inside the body. This more potent form of CAR-T has the potential to treat many more cancers.

A redesigned cancer immunotherapy is showing striking early results after decades of disappointment with similar drugs. Researchers engineered a more powerful CD40 agonist antibody and changed how ...

CAR T therapy has been transformative in the battle against deadly cancers. Scientists extract a patient’s own immune cells, genetically engineer them to target a specific type of cancer, and infuse ...

A protein already targeted by FDA-approved cancer drugs may also help the body fight influenza, according to new research ...

Sharp Memorial Hospital is the first hospital system in San Diego to use a revolutionary technology to destroy cancerous tumors. The groundbreaking treatment, called histotripsy, focuses external ...

Cancer treatment has come a long way, but many of today's therapies still come with steep costs: not just financial, but physical and emotional too. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy remain vital tools, ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a method to more precisely heat up gold nanoparticles to target and destroy cancerous tumors. Using imaging methods that combine light and sound ...

In its latest pioneering effort to harness the power of focused ultrasound to battle disease, the University of Virginia Health System is examining the scalpel-free surgery's potential to enable the ...

Sharp Memorial Hospital is the first hospital system in San Diego to use a revolutionary technology to destroy cancerous tumors. The groundbreaking treatment, called histotripsy, focuses external ...

Sharp Memorial Hospital is the first hospital system in San Diego to use a revolutionary technology to destroy cancerous tumors. The treatment is called histotripsy. “This was cow liver that’s ...