Control Switches Found For Immune Cells That Fight Cancer, Viral Infection
Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 09:35
in Health & Medicine
Medical science may be a significant step closer to climbing into the driver's seat of an important class of immune cells, researchers report in Nature Immunology. The researchers showed that a single protein, HS1, enables key functions of natural killer (NK) cells, which kill early cancers and fight off viral infections.