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Nicky Blackburn

Bar-Ilan University’s Nanoparticles Revitalize Exhausted NK Cells To Fight Cancer‌ ‌

Prof. Mira Barda-Saad from the Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University. BIU 

It’s not just our minds and bodies that get exhausted when battling cancer, it’s also the natural killer (NK) cells of our bodies – a key component of the immune system – that get fatigued and lose function when they have to keep fighting the disease.

Now, a new study at Bar-Ilan University offers a novel method to rejuvenate NK cells using nanoparticles, restoring their vitality to give them the strength to keep fighting cancer cells.

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