Implants mimic infection to rally immune system against tumours

Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 15:14 in Health & Medicine

Bioengineers at Harvard University have shown that small plastic disks impregnated with tumour-specific antigens and implanted under the skin can reprogram the mammalian immune system to attack tumours...

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