White blood cells can be super helpful, or they can make a problem worse: when faced with threats ranging from snake bites to covid infections, some white blood cells retaliate with a peculiar tactic: ...
From the moment they’re born, newborns — or, specifically, their immune systems — must learn to fight germs without harming their own tissues. In a new study, Yale researchers found that one type of ...
CAR T-cell therapy can be a lifesaving treatment for blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma. The gene therapy trains a patient’s T cells—white blood cells that play an important role in the immune ...