The researchers took advantage of living tumour cells' unique ability to travel long distances across the brain to return to the site of their fellow tumour cells.
Using gene engineering, scientists are repurposing cancer cells to develop a therapeutic that kills tumor cells and stimulates the immune system to destroy primary tumors and prevent cancer.
The team developed a new cell therapy approach to eliminate established tumors and induce long-term immunity, training the immune system so that it can prevent cancer from recurring.
“ Our goal is to take an innovative but translatable approach so that we can develop a therapeutic, cancer-killing vaccine that ultimately will have a lasting impact in medicine “
Khalid Shah