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Bacterial couriers as cancer vaccines

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Flagellated bacteria coated with antigen-adsorbing nanoparticles and injected into irradiated tumours elicit systemic antitumour immune responses by transporting tumour antigens towards the tumour periphery, where they are taken up by functional antigen-presenting cells.

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Fig. 1: Motile bacteria coated with antigen-adsorbing nanoparticles trigger antitumour immunity following radiotherapy.

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  1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Andrew Redenti, Jaeseung Hahn & Tal Danino

  2. Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Tal Danino

  3. Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

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Redenti, A., Hahn, J. & Danino, T. Bacterial couriers as cancer vaccines. Nat Biomed Eng 6, 3–5 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-021-00839-1

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