So how does it work? “So basically we’re taking all of the smarts of the immune system, of the body, and bringing it to bear on a person’s tumor. So what we do is basically put a bacterial gene, it’s not a bacteria, it’s not a live bacteria, it’s a single gene that we put into a patient’s tumor cells. This is expressed as a protein on the surface of the tumor cells, like a beacon, if you will, and it brings in the immune system. “Once the immune system sees our bacterial beacon it can then expose all of the patient’s tumor antigens that are in that person’s tumor. ”said Dr. Patricia Lawman.
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