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The secret life of CD4+ T cells: from helpers to melanoma fighters

Posted on January 21, 2024 by Hippocratic Post

The secret life of CD4+ T cells: from helpers to melanoma fighters: Researchers have revealed unprecedented insights into CD4+ T cells, a type of immune cell, which show promise for immunotherapies against melanoma, the most severe form of skin cancer. In the study led by the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) […]

Novel map reveals how immune cells fight and remember infections

Posted on October 14, 2020 (November 19, 2025) by Hippocratic Post

Novel map reveals how immune cells fight and remember infections: Researchers have charted the activity of tens of thousands of genes in mouse immune cells over the course of an infection to create the first full dynamic map of how cells learn to fight microbes, and then preserve a memory of this for future infections. […]