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2 stories tagged "nk-cells"
Cancer
The Executioner's Second Job: A Death Enzyme That Also Calls NK Cells to the Tumor
Caspase-3, the enzyme biology calls the executioner, turns out to carve a hidden, nucleus-bound form of interleukin-18 that summons NK cells to hunt tumors, a role the study says had gone unrecognized.
CancerA New Cancer 'Weapon' That Has Only Ever Slowed Tumors in Mice
Stanford's tissue-resident natural killer cells slowed melanoma and head-and-neck tumors in mice. John Sunwoo warned against reading too much into that. The coverage read plenty into it anyway.