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Nature Medicine 15, 731 - 732 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nm0709-731

Tumor immunotherapy: making an immortal army

Brent H. Koehn1 & Stephen P. Schoenberger1

  1. Brent H. Koehn and Stephen P. Schoenberger are in the Laboratory of Cellular Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, USA.

Correspondence to: Stephen P. Schoenberger1 e-mail: sps@liai.org


Manipulation of cell renewal pathways creates T memory stem cells that can generate a sustained and targeted immune response. These findings have broad implications for vaccine development and immunotherapy (pages 808–813).

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