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Drug combo strategy makes glioblastoma cells visible to attacking immune cells

by Julia Evangelou Strait, Washington University School of Medicine Researchers at WashU Medicine have identified a possible way to make glioblastoma cells vulnerable to different types of immunotherapy. The strategy, which they demonstrated in cells in the lab, forces brain cancer cells to display targets for the immune system to attack. Glioblastoma is one of the...

Glioblastoma cells invade the brain as neuronal free riders
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Glioblastoma cells invade the brain as neuronal free riders

by Julia Bird, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg  Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.06.054 Certain cells from glioblastomas, the most aggressive form of brain tumors, mimic characteristics and movement strategies of immature neurons to colonize the brain. Fundamental new results from researchers at Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) and Heidelberg Medical School (MFHD) and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)...