Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute have found that some particularly aggressive lung cancer cells can develop their own electric network, like that seen in the body's nervous system. This ...

An engineered protein turns off the kind of immune cells most likely to damage tissue as part of type-1 diabetes, hepatitis, multiple sclerosis, shows a new study in mice. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

CAR T cell therapy is one of the most promising new cancer treatments to emerge in recent years. CAR T cells are engineered cancer immunotherapies that boost or hijack a person’s immune system to ...

A woman who had three different autoimmune conditions has not required treatments for almost a year after her immune cells were genetically modified and used to kill off the rogue cells attacking her ...