Implants mimic infection to rally immune system against tumors

Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 20:28 in Health & Medicine

Bioengineers at Harvard University have shown that small plastic disks impregnated with tumor-specific antigens and implanted under the skin can reprogram the mammalian immune system to attack tumors.

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