Immune checkpoint inhibitors have reshaped cancer treatment over the past decade, but the same immune activation that shrinks tumors can also turn against healthy tissue, including the brain. A ...

Consider two seemingly unrelated medical puzzles. First: Every day, our bodies produce hundreds of billions of new cells, ...

An overview of clinical features and biomarkers associated with anti-NMDAR encephalitis, highlighting current research directions in diagnosis and treatment. Encephalitis is a potentially ...

“My year of unraveling” is how a despairing Christy Morrill described nightmarish months when his immune system hijacked his brain. What’s called autoimmune encephalitis attacks the organ that makes ...

The identification of reliable biomarkers from peripheral blood is crucial for improving disease diagnosis and monitoring. Spectral flow cytometry has emerged as a powerful tool for high-dimensional ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My 28-year-old son is in the hospital. He hasn’t been acting like himself for a few weeks (not sleeping nor eating well), and he suddenly had four seizures. The doctors are worried ...

Natural killer (NK) cells are pivotal in the innate immune response against cancer and viral infections, with their presence in tumors correlating to better patient outcomes in various cancers.

Einstein co-authors (from left): Alexandra Tse, M.S., and current M.D./Ph.D. student; senior author Kartik Chandran, professor of microbiology & immunology, Ph.D ...