A vaccine for cancer?

• Autores: Beatriz M. Carreno, Elaine R. Mardis
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 314, Nº. 4, 2016, págs. 46-46
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article focuses on research into the development of vaccines using cancer cell DNA to help eliminate tumors and prevent cancer recurrence. It states researchers have found methods of encouraging the immune system to focus on proteins unique to cancerous tissues. It mentions researchers studied major histocompatibility complex proteins to help develop personalized vaccines that contain personalized vaccines including those proteins in dendritic cells to present them to the immune system.