Disrupting tumor’s defenses

Researchers at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University have developed nanotechnology that prevents tumors from disabling the body’s Natural Killer (NK) cells. They used RNA molecules to stop the NK cells from expressing the gene that the tumor attacks. The NK cell is then free to destroy the tumor.

https://www.jns.org/bar-ilan-university-researchers-develop-new-nanotechnology-to-fight-cancer-cells/

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/emmm.202114073

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