In the early stages of cancer, neutrophils play a protective role within the immune system by attacking cancer cells. Yet, at some point, neutrophils are reprogrammed to work for the tumor, ...

Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is helping advance neutrophil therapies to the crawling stage. In a recent paper published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown mechanism for how aggressive brain cancers reprogram immune system cells from fighting cancer to enabling further tumor growth.

Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell that the immune system uses to attack cancer in its early stages. However, scientists have discovered that, if a tumor survives the body’s initial defenses ...