Investigating Cancer Drug Toxicity Leads to Critical Discovery
3D rendition of T cells attacking cancer cells. Credit: La Jolla Institute for ImmunologyResearchers uncover a new strategy to avoid cancer immunotherapy side effects.It’s not often that a failed clinical trial leads to a scientific breakthrough.When patients in the UK started experiencing negative side effects during a cancer immunotherapy trial, researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and University of Liverpool went back, examined the data, and worked with patient samples…