Cancer cells use ‘tiny tentacles’ to suppress the immune system



Cancer cells use ‘tiny tentacles’ to suppress the immune system

Investigators used the power of nanotechnology to discover a new way that cancer can disarm its would-be cellular attackers by extending out nanoscale tentacles that can reach into an immune cell and pull out its powerpack.

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