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Keeping immune cells engineered to kill cancer from killing everything else

A T cell, the basis for immune therapies against cancer. (credit: NIAID)

One of the more exciting developments in cancer research involves tweaking the immune system to attack cancer. It's possible to engineer the immune system's T cells to attack and kill tumor cells based on the specific proteins those tumors produce. It's a relatively new anti-cancer therapy, but initial tests...

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