Harvard ScientistsDevelop New Cell Therapy to Kill, Prevent Brain Cancer

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The researchers took advantage of living tumour cells' unique ability to travel long distances across the brain to return to the site of their fellow tumour cells.

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Khalid Shah, a scientist from the lab of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, BWH led the research work.

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A sophisticated mouse model of the lethal brain disease glioblastoma was used by the researcher to test its dual action, cancer-killing vaccination, with encouraging findings.

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Off-white Section Separator Using gene engineering, scientists are repurposing cancer cells to develop a therapeutic that kills tumor cells and stimulates the immune system to destroy primary tumors and prevent cancer.

Off-white Section Separator The team developed a new cell therapy approach to eliminate established tumors and induce long-term immunity, training the immune system so that it can prevent cancer from recurring.

“ Our goal is to take an innovative but translatable approach so that we can develop a therapeutic, cancer-killing vaccine that ultimately will have a lasting impact in medicine “

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