Duke team finds missing immune cells that could fight lethal brain tumors

(Duke University Medical Center) Researchers at Duke Cancer Institute have tracked the missing T-cells in glioblastoma patients. They found them in abundance in the bone marrow, locked away and unable to function because of a process the brain stimulates in response to glioblastoma, to other tumors that metastasize in the brain and even to injury.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - Category: Biology Source Type: news