Nanovaults Used to Prod Immune System to Fight Cancer
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have discovered a way to “wake up” the immune system to fight cancer by delivering an immune system–stimulating protein in a nanoscale container called a vault directly into lung cancer tumors. The new method harnesses the body’s natural defenses to fight disease growth. The vaults, barrel-shaped nanoscale capsules found in the cytoplasm of all mammalian cells, were engineered to slowly release a protein – the chemokine CCL21 – into tumors. This work was published in the journal PLoS One.
Nanovaults Used to Prod Immune System to Fight Cancer
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