Finding antitumor T cells in a patient's own cancer
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 21:30
in Biology & Nature
In a paper recently published, investigators demonstrated for the first time that a T cell activation molecule can be used as a biomarker to identify rare antitumor T cells in human cancers. The molecule, CD137, is a protein that is not normally found on the surface of resting T cells but its expression is induced when the T cell is activated.