Natural killer cells steal membrane from cancer cells. (VIDEO)

The Ottawa Hospital

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Natural Killer cells perform trogocytosis on cancer cells (green), stealing some of their membrane. Cancer cells hijack this process to put Natural Killer cells to sleep and evade the immune system.

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Hasim et al., Sci. Adv. 8, eabj3286 (2022) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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