Cancer-fighting T cells are smarter, stronger than experts thought

Monday, August 14, 2017 - 14:12 in Health & Medicine

Scientists studying the body's cancer-fighting T cells have a serious problem: When they culture them in the lab, the T cells sit around at equilibrium, waiting to bump into cancerous cells. But that's not how they operate inside the body. There, they are motorized little bloodhounds, actively seeking out infected cells.

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