Angus Chen covers all issues broadly related to cancer including drugs, policy, science, and equity. He joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at NPR and NPR affiliate stations. His ...
The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients ...
Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified an important immune response that helps explain why ...
Similar to humans, plants have an immune system to help defend against parasites and other deleterious infections. The human body is interconnected with cell-to-cell communication to orchestrate an ...
A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process ...
The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients ...
A virus from humble black-eyed peas is showing extraordinary promise in the fight against cancer. Unlike other plant viruses, the cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) can awaken the human immune system and ...
Immunotherapy, which uses programmed immune cells to selectively destroy cancer cells, has transformed cancer treatment. However, cancer cells have developed immune evasion strategies, leading to poor ...
Immune cells work to fight infection and other diseases. Different subsets work together to elicit a healthy immune response; however, infections and disease can dysregulate cells and prevent ...