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Scientists find immune cell with unexpected power to fight cancer
BRADLEY J FIKES
Last updated 12:44, September 22 2018
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego in the US say a relatively unexplored pathway the immune system uses to recognise cancer is far more important than previously recognised.
The finding could help scientists design new cancer immunotherapies and predict responses to them.
When this pathway doesn't recognise mutated genes, tumours that exploit the mutations are more common, the researchers found. The relationship is even stronger than that of a better-known pathway.
The research highlights the complexity of the immune system, which consists of many different types of cells that interact with each other and abnormal and invading cells in a web of relationships that are still far from understood.
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