A study has identified a metabolic switch in the immune system's T cells that is essential to the generation of memory T cells -- which confer lasting immunity to previously encountered pathogens -- and a T cell subtype found in tumors that drives anti-tumor responses during immunotherapy.
Read more …A switch for immune memory and anti-tumor immunity
Bioengineers have harnessed the lotus effect to develop a system for culturing cancer cell clusters that can shed light on hard-to-study tumor properties. The new zinc oxide-based culturing surface mimics the lotus leaf surface structure, providing a highly tunable platform for the high-throughput generation of three-dimensional nanoscale tumor models.
Read more …Bioengineers develop lotus leaf-inspired system to advance study of cancer cell clusters