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Turning on Tumor-Fighting T-Cells

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Two signals are better than one when it come to developing new cancer therapies

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Edgington, S. Turning on Tumor-Fighting T-Cells. Nat Biotechnol 11, 1117–1119 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1093-1117

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