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Scientists may be one step closer to producing a specific targeted vaccine for killing cancer cells. UK researchers have pinpointed a protein on immune cells which they hope will help them harness the body’s defences to attack a tumour. A vaccine designed to “home in” on the protein would deliver a message to the immune system to attack the invading cancer, they said.
The research is published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The protein is unique to a type of immune cell called a dendritic cell, which is responsible for triggering the body’s defence system. Its job is to present pathogens or foreign molecules to other cells of the immune system, which in turn eliminate them. Read more
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