Two research teams led by Warner Greene at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco have demonstrated that the vast majority of CD4 T cells in lymphoid tissues, despite their ability to resist full ...

A mouse study at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has found that adding Nef, a protein from HIV, allows donor CAR T cells to avoid detection by the immune system while still attacking tumors.

The HIV virus apparently does invade those T cells, but the cells somehow block virus replication. It is the byproducts of that aborted infection that trigger an immune response that is ultimately ...