T cells can be engineered to fight tumors without succumbing to exhaustion
Fighting a tumor is a marathon, not a sprint. For cancer-fighting T cells, the race is sometimes just too long, and the T cells quit fighting. Researchers even have a name for this phenomenon: T cell exhaustion.
In a new
Nature Immunology study, researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) report that T cells can be engineered to clear tumors without succumbing to T cell exhaustion.
The idea is to give the cells a little bit of armor against the exhaustion program. The cells can go into the tumor to do their job, and then they can stick around as memory cells.
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