Immunotherapy: Vaccine patch to treat melanoma
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 17, 18 (2018).
doi:10.1038/nrd.2017.259
Author: Sarah Crunkhorn
The use of whole tumour cell preparations in cancer immunotherapy, to simultaneously target multiple tumour antigens to activate the immune response, is a promising therapeutic approach. Ye et al. have developed a transdermal microneedle vaccine patch that directly targets antigen-presenting cells via delivery of
Source: Nature Reviews Drug Discovery - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Sarah Crunkhorn Tags: Research Highlight Source Type: research
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