It's the cancer-fighting immune cells in a Merkel cell carcinoma patient's blood — not their tumor — that best predicts whether a certain type of immunotherapy will work, according to new work from ...

Much like how a shot of espresso might re-energize you to get through the day, cancer immunotherapies have been developed to re-energize anti-tumor immune responses to help clear cancerous cells. When ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Transduction is the changing of one form of energy into another, such as a spoken voice changed into radio waves by a cellphone. Ten years ago, three research teams published a ...

Ten years ago, three research teams published a breakthrough — the first description of the molecular mechanism for transduction in fingertip sensory Merkel cells that can transduce gentle touch, a ...