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Macrophages, not T cells, may hold key to predicting which melanoma patients are more likely to respond to immunotherapy
It was conventionally thought that TVEC worked by activating T cells—a type of white blood cell—causing them to attack the cancer cells and shrink the melanoma. However, the team found that ...
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T cell macrophage interactions
Inflammatory processes are the body’s defence against local damage and disease. Inflammation involves the influx into organs of immune cells (white blood cells) from the blood. These cells deal with ...
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Macrophage Pharma goes for gold with new funding round
In healthy tissues, macrophages are a type of white blood cell that play an essential role by sweeping up things such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites in the event of infection.
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Carisma drives CAR-M engineered macrophage cancer therapy forward
Carisma Therapeutics is developing a unique, differentiated immuno-oncology (IO) treatment for solid tumors based on chimeric antigen receptor macrophages ... blood drawn from a patient. The cells ...