Using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and deleting a key gene, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have created natural killer cells — a type of immune cell — with measurably stronger activity against a form of leukemia, both in vivo and in vitro.
Deleting an inhibitory gene in natural killer cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells is found to boost their anti-tumor activity and persistence; researchers now seek to develop a clinical therapy
Recent events in Minnesota, Georgia and Kentucky — indeed across the country — are heartbreaking and outrageous. These unjustified assaults upon Black Americans, documented again and again in graphic images and video, are attacks upon all of us — and upon the human rights and...
IN THE NEWS: Dr. Nasim Afsar, chief operating officer for ambulatory care for UCI Health, is recognized as one of Orange County's leading women in healthcare by Coast Magazine and the Orange County Register. Afsar always knew that her life would be about providing health care to communities with the…
IN THE NEWS: Orange County companies, residents, students, alumni and philanthropists rally around UCI Health to help shore up supplies for the COVID-19 outbreak. When national health authorities sent out the first alerts in January about the novel coronavirus spreading in Wuhan, China, UCI Health administrators launched into action. They…
