Drug triggers immune cells to attack prostate cancer (IMAGE)

WashU Medicine

Drug triggers immune cells to attack prostate cancer

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A drug compound stimulates immune cells to attack prostate tumors, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Shown is a human prostate cancer organoid, a small 3D structure that serves as a model of prostate tumors. When the organoid is grown with prostate cancer patients' immune cells, which have been treated with the drug, the immune cells attack the cancer. Red shows dead cells. Blue shows DNA.

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Nupam Mahajan

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