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Dressed-up tumour cells make up a personalized cancer vaccine

A dose of silica-coated cancer cells helps to rally the immune system against malignancies in mice.
Coloured scanning electron micrograph of ovarian cancer cells

Ovarian cancer cells. An individualized vaccine made from similar cells can slow ovarian-tumour growth in laboratory animals. Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library

Coating a person’s cancer cells with silica might one day yield personalized cancer treatments, according to a study in mice1.

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Nature 599, 182 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03021-4

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  1. Guo, J. et al. Nature Biomed. Eng. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-021-00795-w (2021).

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