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Unravelling the secret of a critical immune cell for cancer immunity – EurekAlert

WEHI researchers have discovered a key differentiation process that provides an essential immune function in helping to control cancer and infectious diseases.

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IMAGE: DC-SCRIPT positive cells (red) activating an immune response (blue T cells).
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Credit: Shengbo Zhang and Wang Cao, WEHI
WEHI researchers have discovered a key differentiation process that provides an essential immune function in helping to control cancer and infectious diseases.
The research, published in Science Immunology, is the first to show a new factor – DC-SCRIPT – is required for the function a particular type of dendritic cell – called cDC1 – that is essential in controlling…

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