Fabio Scirocchi News Today

The Wistar Institute's Filippo Veglia, Ph.D., has discovered a key mechanism of how glioblastoma — a serious and often fatal brain cancer — suppresses the immune system so that the tumor can grow unimpeded by the body’s defenses.

Wistar’s Veglia lab identified how glioblastoma evades the immune system by inducing pro-tumor macrophages via a glucose based epigenetic modification....