Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During their preparation for this battle, B cells transiently revert to a more ...
On February 13, Allogene Therapeutics published new long-term follow-up data on cemacabtagene ansegedleucel, showing the investigative allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy ...
A research team has discovered a previously unknown mechanism that could explain why many patients with aggressive B-cell lymphoma do not respond to CAR-T cell therapy in the long term. The results of ...
Gene-edited regulatory B cells could suppress overactive immune responses, potentially helping in the treatment of autoimmune ...
B-cell prolymphocytic leukemia (B-PLL) is a rare, aggressive type of leukemia that progresses rapidly. People with B-PLL typically have a less favorable outlook. However, new targeted treatments in ...
B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) occurs when abnormal B cells accumulate in the bone marrow and blood. This crowds out healthy blood cells and weakens the body’s ability to fight infections.