Sentences with phrase «potent immune response to cancer»

SynNotch engineered T cells are also versatile in that they can either be used drive a potent immune response to cancer or suppress an immune response in an autoimmune setting,» he said.

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«We're able to shuttle millions of cells through this device, generating a very potent immune response against the cancer cells,» Mooney says.

A personal cancer treatment vaccine that targets distinctive «neoantigens» on tumor cells has been shown to stimulate a potent, safe, and highly specific immune anti-tumor response in melanoma patients, report scientists from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Hacancer treatment vaccine that targets distinctive «neoantigens» on tumor cells has been shown to stimulate a potent, safe, and highly specific immune anti-tumor response in melanoma patients, report scientists from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and HaCancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Despite decades of attempts to develop effective cancer treatment vaccines, they have mostly failed at producing potent antitumor immune responses.

The lab also found that apoptotic tumor cells serve as potent instigators of the T cell immune response and has worked on developing cancer vaccines to mimic PND tumor immunity.

«Ipilimumab provides a way to overcome one of the most potent barriers to successful cancer immunotherapy — the ability of cancer to selectively suppress the response of immune cells to the cancer and shut down immune attack,» says Lloyd J. Old, M.D., director of the CRI Scientific Advisory Council.