By Yuki Agarwala We encounter over 60,000 germs every day, yet we do not find ourselves falling sick every day due to the efficiency of our immune system.1 We have an innate and adaptive immune system – the innate response is a general reaction that occurs early during infections, whereas the adaptive response is antigen-specificContinue reading “Advancements in cancer immunotherapies: CAR-T cell technology”
Category Archives: Immunology
The Extra(cellular) Function of Inflammasomes
By Sashini Ranawana The main research questions in the field of immunology tend to focus on why the immune system sometimes fails to defend against infectious diseases and cancers. It is hard to imagine that the same protective response can have equally disastrous effects when it is overactive. This is the case in the immuneContinue reading “The Extra(cellular) Function of Inflammasomes”
The Extra(cellular) Function of Inflammasomes
By Sashini Ranawana The main research questions in the field of immunology tend to focus on why the immune system sometimes fails to defend against infectious diseases and cancers. It is hard to imagine that the same protective response can have equally disastrous effects when it is overactive. This is seen in the cases ofContinue reading “The Extra(cellular) Function of Inflammasomes”
Imperial Bioscience Review 