COULD a cancer patient’s immune cells be coaxed into gobbling up the deadliest brain tumours?
Most people with die within a year of diagnosis, as standard treatments cannot eradicate these tumours.
One potential approach is to harness the immune system to fight the tumours. The trouble is that the brain contains few immune cells, and those that are present often fail to recognise tumours as targets for attack. These are evolutionary adaptations to protect healthy brains from potentially damaging immune responses.
Now , and their colleagues at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles,…
