In rare cases, low or high neutrophils can be a sign of something serious, like cancer. Neutrophils are a type of white blood ...

The team's findings were published in the paper "Functional reprogramming of neutrophils within the brain tumor microenvironment by hypoxia-driven histone lactylation," from Cancer Discovery.

Many different cancer treatments work to directly target the tumor or the cells around it. The immediate goal is to mitigate ...

MBS8 triggers the migration of neutrophils into tumor tissue and killing of cancer cells within 24 hours. “Neutrophils are mostly known for killing pathogens and infected or diseased cells ...

Given all that, the researchers concluded that accumulated neutrophils around cancer tissue generate hydrogen peroxide and thereby hot spots. When exposed to high concentrations of hydrogen ...

Researchers turned white blood cells called neutrophils into drug-smuggling “neutrobots,” which penetrated the blood-brain barrier to treat brain cancer in mice. “This is a very cool idea,” says ...

Neutrophils, one of the immune system warriors that were thought to be all the same, turn out to be diverse. Unfortunately, these cells are also active in autoimmune diseases. New research from ...

Pulmonologist Dr. McGarry Houghton studies lung diseases, especially lung cancer, and he develops new methods to detect and treat them. He leads the Hutch’s lung cancer research group. His major focus ...