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, ...

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 ...

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.

Neutrophil-to-HDL ratio could be a simple and effective predictive marker for kidney stones that may enable early diagnosis and intervention. A higher neutrophil-to-high-density lipoprotein (HDL) ...

Genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of urinary microbiome: Pathway for personalized medicine. Frequency and impact of a genome-wide homologous recombination deficiency signature (HRDsig+) on the ...