Several types of immunotherapy for glioblastoma are in late - stage clinical trials. (scientificamerican.com)
In a paper posted online by the journal Science, researchers at the Dana - Farber / Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center report that, in mice with chronic viral infection, exhausted T cells are controlled by a fundamentally different set of molecular circuits than T cells effectively battling infections or cancer — a finding that suggests a way to increase the staying power of CAR T cells, a promising form of immunotherapy for cancer. (sciencedaily.com)
The Johns Hopkins team tested ImmunoMap's ability to correlate immune responses on receptor sequencing data from T - cells in the tumors of 34 patients with cancer enrolled in a nationwide clinical trial of the immunotherapy drug nivolumab. (sciencedaily.com)