Their recall response can be reflected by faster proliferation or more robust effector functions ... In a recent study, it was also shown that NK cells undergoing 'homeostatic' proliferation ...

Severe infection with Covid-19 has been found to produce a powerful cancer-fighting cell that can shrink tumors.

A review discussing the therapeutic potentials of NK cell biology has been published in the journal Frontiers of Medicine.

Natural killer (NK) cells play an important role in the innate immune response to cancer and viral infections, and their ...

Natural killer cells express a repertoire of ... that could play a substantial role during CMV and hantavirus infections, an important function mediated by activating KIRs is suggested only ...

The activated NK cells then became long-lived and self-renewing months after infection. These “memory” NK cells were able to rapidly mount effector functions and undergo secondary expansion to provide ...

We are trying to learn more about how NK cells develop and how they function to determine the signals they require ... lacking NK cells or NK cell receptors are susceptible to viral infections and ...