Mimicking cancer’s evasive tactics, microparticles show promise for transplant rejection
Saturday, March 14, 2020 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Inspired by a tactic cancer cells use to evade the immune system, University of Pittsburgh researchers have engineered tiny particles that can trick the body into accepting transplanted tissue as its own. Rats that were treated with these cell-sized microparticles developed permanent immune tolerance to grafts — including a whole limb — from a donor […]