A new study from researchers at Uppsala University presents novel findings on why human lymph nodes lose their function with age and the consequences for the effectiveness of our immune system. The ...

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The cost of CAR T-cell therapy means that the highly effective cancer treatment is unavailable in many parts of the world.

A new method to keep human lymph node tissue alive and functioning outside the body for several days could give researchers a much clearer view of how our immune system responds to infections, ...

A single-cell atlas of a class of cells involved in some blood cancers has revealed new subgroups within this cell class. Lymphomas are cancers of the blood that frequently originate in the lymph ...

For the first time, a person has received an experimental treatment to transform one of their lymph nodes into a functioning miniature liver. We won’t know for months whether the therapy works, but if ...

Researchers identify gene expression signatures in different types of lymph nodes cells that play an active role in the development of lymphomas. Lymphomas are blood cancers that often start from ...

Scientists with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have created an engineered model of the supportive tissue found within a lymph node to study human health. Working with scientists at ...

Lymph nodes normally serve as the headquarters of our immune system. When we get an infection or are vaccinated, the lymph nodes are the sites where the immune cells congregate, are activated and ...

Lymphomas are blood cancers that often start from lymph nodes. Lymph nodes contain not only hematopoietic cells, mainly B- and T-lymphoid cells, but also non-hematopoietic cells (NHCs), also called ...