In aggressive lymphomas, inflammatory messengers reprogram the "conductors" of the immune system, causing lymph nodes structure to collapse. A team led by Simon Haas describes in "Nature Cancer" this ...

Scientists with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have created an engineered model of the supportive tissue found within a lymph node to study human health. Working with scientists at ...

Fibroblastic reticular cells (FRCs) are a population of stromal cells found in lymph nodes that are crucial for the maintenance of immunological niches and the support of immune responses during ...

The lymph nodes in the armpit are often the first place breast cancer spreads to. Everyone with invasive breast cancer currently has to undergo surgery to remove lymph nodes to check for cancer cells.

In aggressive lymphomas, inflammatory messengers reprogram the “conductors” of the immune system, causing lymph node structure to collapse. A team led by Simon Haas describes in “Nature Cancer” this ...

Structure of a lymph node showing the typical division into different territories for immune cells: B cells are shown in red, T cells in blue, lymphatic vessels in yellow, and stromal cells in cyan.

Tumors, such as melanoma, release nanovesicles called exosomes (gray) that travel and lodge in the lymph nodes. There they corrupt the behavior of lymph cells. The lymphatic vessels (green) branch out ...

If you've been hopping between arms for booster shots, a new study suggests that your lymph nodes remember exactly where you first got jabbed and perform far better when you return to that same arm.

Lymph node dissections, or lymphadenectomies, are surgical procedures that play an important role in cancer treatments. A healthcare professional will remove the lymph nodes and check a tissue sample ...