The immune system of the alpaca reveals a potential treatment for cancer
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
The natural world often provides the answer to unsolved medical problems. On this occasion, the solution to a challenge posed by cancer has come about from the immune system of camelids. A new study describes a number of therapeutic tools that have the capacity to block the activity of EGF, a growth factor that is dysregulated in cancer cells.