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Cancer
The Reason Immunotherapy Bounces Off Prostate Cancer: Tumors Chew Off a Genetic Tail to Blind the Immune System
Prostate tumors overproduce a protein that destroys the immune system's docking targets. A CRISPR tool that blocks the trick made checkpoint drugs work again, so far only in mice.
CancerThe "Secret Reason" Cancer Drugs Stop Working Was Published in February
A Montreal team's antibody against the SLAMF6 brake on T cells made the rounds this week as a fresh discovery. The paper went up in February, the work is in mice, and the antibody has not been given to a person.