One Step Closer To Artificial Lymph Nodes That Fight Cancer

In an early clinical safety testing in mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report the development of a specialized jelly material that can mimic a lymph node. It aims to effectively spark and reproduce cancer-fighting immune system T-cells. The study brings scientists closer, as they say, to administering such artificial lymph nodes into patients and activating T-cells to combat disease.

The Role Of Lymph Nodes

In recent years, a wave of medical breakthroughs has refined techniques that use T-cells – a type of white blood cell – in treating cancer. To be successful, the cells must be taught or primed to …read more