Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: How Breast Cancer Cells Sneak Past Local Immune Defenses
July 16, 2020
July 16, 2020
COLD SPRING HARBOR, New York, July 16 -- The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory issued the following news:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Associate Professor Mikala Egeblad and her colleagues describe a newly understood way by which breast cancer cells sabotage a key player in the body's immune system. That key player provides local immune surveillance by activating killer T-cells, but if it cannot mature and do its job, breast cancer cells can escape detection from the immune syst . . .
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Associate Professor Mikala Egeblad and her colleagues describe a newly understood way by which breast cancer cells sabotage a key player in the body's immune system. That key player provides local immune surveillance by activating killer T-cells, but if it cannot mature and do its job, breast cancer cells can escape detection from the immune syst . . .