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An engineered viral protein enhanced the anticancer function of T cells in mice, suggesting a new strategy to improve immunotherapy.

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Timing Nutrition to Boost Antitumor Immunity

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Syncing Cancer Therapy with the Menstrual Cycle May Boost Outcomes

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Maintaining NK Cells’ Killer Instincts

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Characterizing Cancer via the Immune Response

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Cell-Based Assays for Immuno-Oncology

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Turning Off Metastasis in Breast Cancer

Improving Tumor Microenvironment Proteomics Using Spatial Biology

Improving Tumor Microenvironment Proteomics Using Spatial Biology

Discover the Potential of Bispecific Antibodies for Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Unleashing the Potential of Bispecific Antibodies

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How Tumors Tire Out T Cells

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Interrogating the Complexities of the Tumor Microenvironment

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CAR Technology in Cancer Therapy: From CAR-T to CAR-NK

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Q&A: What if Immune Cells Don’t Actually Detect Viruses and Bacteria?

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Why Some HPV Infections Carry More Cervical Cancer Risk

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Improving Tumor-Infiltration Lymphocyte (TIL) Extraction

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Salmonella Injection Helps the Mouse Immune System Kill Tumors

Illustration showing how following radiation therapy, which triggers the release of cancer-specific antigens, researchers injected Salmonella typhimurium bacteria covered in positively charged nano- particles near tumors in mice.

Infographic: Salmonella Shuttle Tumor Antigens to Immune Cells

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Traversing Narrow Channels Helps Metastatic Cancer Cells Survive

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Protein Pilfered from Cancer Cells Thwarts Immune Attack

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Book Excerpt from On the Trail of the Jackalope

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Ten Years On, CAR T Cell Recipient Is Still Cancer-Free

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Biomedical Informatician Atul Butte Dies at 55

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A Gut Pathogen’s Unexpected Weapon Against Amyloid Diseases

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Maternal Iron Deficiency Can Trigger Sex Reversal in Mouse Embryos

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Electronic Records in Cell Culture Management

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June 2025, Issue 1

Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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Seeing and Sorting with Confidence

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Streamlining Microbial Quality Control Testing

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Agilent Unveils the Next Generation in LC-Mass Detection: The InfinityLab Pro iQ Series

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Pioneering Cancer Plasticity Atlas will help Predict Response to Cancer Therapies

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How Alderley Analytical are Delivering eXtreme Robustness in Bioanalysis