New anti-cancer ingredient: Table salt (sodium chloride), a common kitchen ingredient, activates immune cells to fight cancer.

In a study using human breast cancer cells, scientists say they have potentially identified immune system white blood cells that appear to be the...

Scientists are on the verge of a cancer breakthrough after working out how the body’s immune system targets cells devastated by the disease. A new...

Sodium chloride, commonly known as “table salt”, was a valuable commodity in history. Today, table salt is cheap and indispensable in the...

The long-term effects of respiratory viral infections such as COVID-19 are a major public health burden. Some estimates suggest over 65 million people...

The long-term effects of respiratory viral infections such as COVID-19 are a major public health burden. Some estimates suggest over 65 million people...

A new tool for monitoring immune health patterns over time has revealed how a pair of checkpoint inhibitor therapies work together to recruit new...

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) have discovered hundreds of potential new cancer driver genes. The findings, published in the...

Around 58 million people suffer from chronic inflammation caused by the hepatitis C virus, and 300,000 people die from the disease every year. So...

Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) is one of the primary methods of tumour immunotherapy. It involves reactivating the immune system, which cancer has...