During pregnancy, the maternal immune system must engage in a fine balancing act: maintaining tolerance to the fetal allograft while restoring innate and adaptive immune mechanisms for protection ...

Along with defending against pathogens, the body’s innate immune system helps to protect the stability of our genomes in ...

A new study from the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has found evidence that targeting CD47, a protein that is part of ...

The most important takeaway from the study is that these data suggest that CD47 is an attractive target for drug development.

When thinking about the immune system, most people think about B and T cells and how they can be trained to recognize pathogens, preventing re-infections. Besides this "adaptive" immune system, we ...

Stem cells provide new insights into cardiovascular disease, helping researchers understand its causes and identify potential ...

A new USC study has found evidence that targeting CD47, a protein that is part of the innate immune system, could be a key step in fighting colorectal cancer. It is one of the first indications that ...

Brief exposure to "danger signals" can prime the innate immune system into a long-term hyperreactive and inflammatory state.

Preclinical data demonstrates Decoy platform single agent anti-tumor activity and combination-mediated tumor eradication with NSAID, anti-PD1 checkpoint therapy, low dose chemotherapy (LDC) and/or ...

Therapeutics reports preclinical data showing strong anti-cancer activity of its next generation, personalized, off-the-shelf, ...

BriaCell’s clinical candidates for next generation breast cancer (Bria-BRES+™) and prostate cancer (Bria-PROS+™) generate robust anti-cancer ...

As parents, we want the best for our children. If there was a way to guarantee their success from early childhood, we would most likely take that necessary step. But there is no easy way and no ...