Immune cells

A team of researchers has found disrupting the interaction between cancer cells and certain immune cells is more effective at killing cancer cells than current immunotherapy treatments. The findings, which include studies in cell lines and animal models, appeared in JCI Insight and focus on a protein called CD6 as a target for a new […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how our small genetic differences can have a tremendous effect on how our bodies respond to disease. “The difference is within us,” said Vivek Chandra, an instructor at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI). “We can get infected by the same bacteria or viruses, but the ways our diseases progress […]