UM Twin Cities Researchers Find Way to Optimize Immune Response Against Cancer
In what many have described as groundbreaking work, a team of researchers based at University of Minnesota Twin Cities has demonstrated how the body’s immune cells can be engineered in order to navigate the physical barriers that make it hard for an individual’s immune system to fight cancerous tumors. This study has the potential to improve how millions of cancer patients are treated. The research paper was published in the journal “Nature Communications.” Conventionally, cancers are commonly treated through the use of chemicals (chemotherapy), radiation and surgery. Combinations of these approaches are also common. However, immunotherapy is also gaining ground…











