An international team have mapped how the HTLV-1 virus causes a rare leukaemia in some people, providing clues on how to stop it happening. The team, led by Imperial College London and Kumamoto University in Japan, used...
A new major study has revealed that supercharging the mutation rate in cancer cells could create a “powerful vaccine” that is able to boost the effectiveness of immunotherapy. The international study – carried out by...
Virus experts from Cardiff University’s School of Medicine have uncovered, for the first time, how a virus known as Adenovirus type 26 (Ad26), which has been used effectively in a tamed form as a vaccine, can infect...
British scientists say a common virus that causes childhood coughs and colds could be key in developing future treatments for primary liver cancer and hepatitis C. Researchers at University of Leeds found that a...
It’s really happening. Scientists just took a big, “very positive” step towards developing what could be the first ‘universal cancer vaccine’. The results from early trials in humans, along...
Engineering immune cells to attack cancer is a form of treatment that is showing great promise, but it is complex because it involves extracting and modifying T cells before injecting them back into the body. Scientists...
While investigating a way to create an effective malaria vaccine for pregnant women without it attacking the placenta, Danish researchers found that their experimental malaria vaccine can attack cancer cells. The...
Scientists have tested countless drugs as potential cures for cancer, HIV and similar incurable diseases, and they recently found that new graphene oxide biosensors show promise as treatments for both cancer and HIV. A...
Local medical scientists have found one of the most common viruses in the human body is linked to poor outcomes in patients with most kinds of early-stage cancers. Scientists at the Western Connecticut Health Network...
A new portable disease-detecting “paper machine” has been developed by a team of researchers at Harvard University. What makes the device special is its low cost and efficiency since the machine can detect cancer...