Implant Makes Cells Kill Cancer

Description

One of cancer's cleverest tricks is its ability to hide from the immune system. A new approach to cancer treatment called immunotherapy could spare patients at least some of the grueling battery of chemotherapy treatments by retraining the body's own defenders--the cells of the immune system--to recognize and destroy tumors. Now researchers at Harvard University have developed a simple way to do this inside the body: a polymer implant attracts and trains immune-system cells to go after cancer.

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http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22027/

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22027/