Carbon nanotubes boost cancer-fighting cells

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 13:30 in Biology & Nature

Engineers have found that the defects in carbon nanotubes cause T cell antigens to cluster in the blood and stimulate the body's natural immune response. Their findings could improve current adoptive immunotherapy, a treatment used to boost the body's ability to fight cancer.

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