A Senescent Cell Brain Tumor Vaccine
April 4, 2023 | Terry Sharrer
“Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (MA, USA) have developed a cell therapy that eradicates tumors while also preventing recurrence by training the immune system to recognize and destroy tumors that may subsequently occur. This vaccine was safe and efficacious in mouse models of brain cancer glioblastoma, giving the researchers hope that this could be a human cancer therapeutic in the future. The research group took an unusual approach to develop this vaccine and took advantage of a unique characteristic of cancer cells. Instead of using inactivated tumor cells, they genetically engineered and repurposed living tumor cells, which can track, target and return to the site of other tumor cells.” MORE
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