B cells are an important part of the immune system. One of their jobs is to neutralize the threat from a foreign invader known as a pathogen. They do this by producing an antibody that binds with the antigen on the threatening entity. 

When an antigen binds to a receptor on a B cell, the B-cell receptor signaling pathway is activated. Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) is an enzyme that’s critical to the activation of the B-cell...

Charles Salazar lives in New Jersey, but considers Houston his “second” home.

For four years, he and his wife, Debbie, have been traveling to Houston regularly so he can receive treatment for mantle cell lymphoma, a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, at MD Anderson.

“Sure, I could have sought care closer to home, but my wife is a nurse who knows her stuff,” he says. “As soon as I was diagnosed, she started researching where...