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The effectiveness of killer T cells (pink) against tumor cells (brown) is damped by the interaction between PD-L1 (blue) and PD-1 (purple), but that can be somewhat overcome by artificial antigen presenting cells (orange), which encourage killer T cells to multiply.

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Alyssa Kosmides and Randall Meyer, Johns Hopkins Medicine

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