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Cellular censuses to guide cancer care

In the age of immunotherapy, cancer biologists are relying on a new generation of tools to learn how the interplay between tumours and immune cells shapes the course of disease.
  1. Michael Eisenstein

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Breast cancer cells imaged with the Vectra Polaris multispectral slide imaging system

The microenvironment surrounding a breast-cancer tumour (blue) contains different types of immune cells, such as T cells and B cells. Credit: Akoya Biosystems

Although he is trained as a pathologist, Sean Bendall has become something of a map-maker of late, using cutting-edge protein-mapping technology to chart the treacherous landscape of tumour tissues.

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Nature 567, 555-557 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00904-5

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