Implant-based cancer vaccine is first to eliminate tumors in mice
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 16:28
in Health & Medicine
A cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals. The new approach, pioneered by bioengineers and immunologists, uses plastic disks impregnated with tumor-specific antigens and implanted under the skin to reprogram the mammalian immune system to attack tumors.