Word: huebsch
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...particular type of immune cell—called a dendritic cell—will search the body for foreign matter, targeting it for destruction by T cells, another component of the immune system. But some tumors manage to escape detection, enabling them to grow uncontrollably, said Nathaniel D. Huebsch, one of the study’s authors. “The idea with a cancer vaccine is to wake up the immune system and let it know there’s a tumor in the body and it should try to destroy it,” Huebsch said. Current therapies...