Carbon nanotubes boost cancer-fighting cells
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 04:30
in Health & Medicine
Yale University 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, which appear as the cover article of the April 20 issue of the journal Langmuir, could improve current adoptive immunotherapy, a treatment used to boost the body's ability to fight cancer...