Phages redirect vaccine immunity to attack cancer cells in mouse study
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Tom Bawden
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Researchers have demonstrated that bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) can be used to redirect vaccine-induced immunity to attack cancer cells. In a mouse study, vaccinating mice against malaria and then using a harmless phage to direct that immune response toward cancer cells led to tumor eradication in nearly half of the animals. This approach could potentially overcome a key limitation of immunotherapy, which currently fails to benefit many patients.
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· 3 pulledBacteria-killing viruses have destroyed cancer cells in mice by redirecting the immunity they built up from vaccinations to attack tumours.
Vaccinating mice against malaria and then using a harmless phage, a virus that infects bacteria, to direct that immune response towards cancer cells resulted in the tumours being eradicated in nearly half of the animals.
Immunotherapy, treatments that use our immune system to fight cancer, has transformed how we treat some forms of the condition, but many people still don't benefit.
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