Velcro-like proteins keep cancer drugs inside the cancer

There's no shortage of techniques to kill cancer, such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, but the really tricky part is doing so without harming the rest of the body. Cytokines are small proteins that could play a part in immunotherapy, but they've so far not been approved for use, given their toxicity to healthy cells. Now, researchers from MIT have managed to keep cytokines contained in cancer cells, attaching them with proteins that stick like Velcro.

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Category: Medical

Tags:

• Cancer
• Cells
• Immunotherapy
• MIT
• Protein
• The Immune System
• Tumor
• Tumors

from New Atlas (Gizmag) https://ift.tt/31OI0Oa