City of Hope Research Reveals an Immune Cell That Can Attack Cancer
According to preclinical research published online today in Cell , one of the world’s premier scientific journals, researchers with City of Hope®, one of the largest cancer treatment and research organizations in the United States, have discovered that a type of immune cell in the human body known to be important for allergy and other immune responses can also attack cancer.
- According to preclinical research published online today in Cell , one of the world’s premier scientific journals, researchers with City of Hope®, one of the largest cancer treatment and research organizations in the United States, have discovered that a type of immune cell in the human body known to be important for allergy and other immune responses can also attack cancer.
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City of Hope researchers discovered that ILC2s, pictured here, can attack cancer cells. - However in the highly translational labs at City of Hope, researchers prioritized the examination of human cells and found that human ILC2s do not work the same as mouse ILC2s.
- In fact, Yu is founding director of the Natural Killer Cell Biology Research Program at City of Hope, a national leader in the field.