Super Defence Avoids Manipulation

Scientists can already prepare the immune cells for the tumour’s manipulating neurotransmitters. Today, cancer patients can get drugs that prevent the neurotransmitters from binding to immune cells. And in new experiments, scientists use the CRISPR method to alter immune cell genes, so cancer signals glance off.

The result is an immune cell army attacking the tumour without being affected by the cancer cells’ persistent attempts to defend themselves.