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Smart molecules trigger white blood cells to become better cancer-eating machines

Anne Li                                                                                     September 30th, 2017                            [email protected]

 

A team of researchers has engineered smart protein molecules that can reprogram white blood cells to ignore a self-defense signaling mechanism that cancer cells use to survive and spread in the body. Researchers say the advance could lead to a new method of re-engineering immune cells to fight cancer and infectious diseases. The team successfully tested this method in a live cell culture system.
 
See original article at: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170928142121.htm

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