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UArizona Health Sciences researchers are improving health by studying the interactions that govern the immune defense system against invading microbes.

UArizona Health Sciences researchers have created a five-module chimeric antigen receptor T cell that is showing early potential to fight Type 1 diabetes.

Researchers used a patient’s cancer cells to teach her immune system how to recognize and destroy the cancer, revealing an option for successfully treating others.

Experts in the Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center are tackling the diverse yet related issues of substance misuse, chronic pain and addiction.

A blood sample may make it easier to detect gastric cancers and could lead to improved treatments for cancers that are resistant to common immunotherapies.

Using a highly accurate test they developed, University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers have shown that antibodies persist for months after infection.

Antibodies normally fight viruses, but in the case of flaviviruses, they can make infections worse. UArizona Health Sciences immunologists figured out why.

An unexpected finding gives researchers in the UArizona Health Sciences Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center a novel target for non-opioid pain therapeutics.

A focus on computing technology is positioning the University of Arizona Health Sciences to take advantage of the ever-increasing research opportunities afforded by big data.

Sixteen first-year students are among the 32 new PCP Scholarship recipients this academic year at the colleges of medicine in Tucson and Phoenix.