Posts by: Patricia Inacio PhD

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In a new study entitled “Mutant MHC class II epitopes drive therapeutic immune responses to cancer,” researchers report the foundations of a new strategy to develop personalized cancer immunotherapies based ... Read more

April 28, 2015April 28, 2015

Specific Tumor Localization with Noninvasive Immune System Imaging Technique Highlighted in New Study

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In a new study entitled “Noninvasive imaging of immune responses,” researchers at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research used positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to detect anti-tumor immune responses. This ... Read more

April 27, 2015April 27, 2015

Promising Combined Immunotherapy in Untreated Advanced Melanoma Patients Revealed

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In a new study entitled “Nivolumab and Ipilimumab versus Ipilimumab in Untreated Melanoma,” researchers showed how combining two immunotherapies — nivolumab and ipilimubad — to treat patients with advanced melanoma ... Read more

April 24, 2015April 24, 2015

Clinical Trial Tests Personalized Vaccine for Metastatic Kidney Cancer

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A team of University of New Mexico Cancer Center researchers is developing a new Phase 3 clinical trial where patients’ cells are used to produce a personalized vaccine for metastatic kidney cancer, specifically targeting patient ... Read more

April 22, 2015April 22, 2015

Combined Adaptive and Innate Immunity Stops Tumor Growth in Severe Melanoma Models

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In a new study entitled “Synergistic Innate and Adaptive Immune Response to Combination Immunotherapy with Anti-Tumor Antigen Antibodies and Extended Serum Half-Life IL-2,” researchers show how combining both innate and ... Read more

April 21, 2015April 21, 2015

Healthy Seniors’ Antibodies May Hold Promise in Developing New Anti Cancer Therapies

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Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute revealed that healthy seniors’ immune system may hold the secret against cancer. The researchers suggest that elderly people who are older that 80 years of age were most likely ... Read more

April 20, 2015April 20, 2015

Cancer, Immunity, and Immunotherapy Research Reviewed in Special Issue

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A comprehensive and extended review on last decade’s research devoted to cancer, immunity, and immunotherapy has recently been highlighted in a joint special issue featuring a series of articles published ... Read more

April 9, 2015April 9, 2015

Researchers Experiment With Boosting Dendritic Cell-Based Immunotherapy Against Glioblastoma

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In a recent study entitled “Tetanus toxoid and CCL3 improve dendritic cell vaccines in mice and glioblastoma patients,” researchers showed that boosting the immune system with a tetanus vaccine before administering ... Read more

April 2, 2015April 2, 2015

Transgene Targeted Immunotherapies Presented During AACR Meeting

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Transgene has recently announced they will present novel results of two pre-clinical trials evaluating immunotherapies during the next Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), taking place between April 18-22, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The ... Read more

March 26, 2015March 26, 2015

CD4+ T Cells Differentiate Into Distinct Subpopulations Within The Immune System

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In a new study entitled “Functional Heterogeneity in the CD4+ T Cell Response to Murine γ-Herpesvirus 68” researchers showed that a population of immune cells – CD4+ T cells — differentiate into two ... Read more