Immunoprofiler: Cancer

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The immune system is very good at defining subtle differences in our own self and can be a friend or foe to our cells and tissues. Our bodies are “superorganisms,” entire ecosystems of individual cells and microbes that live in and on us in relative harmony. The immune system can be highly destructive, and it will fight for us or against us depending on the information it receives. New cancer immunotherapy drugs aim to give the immune system extra cues which will flip it out of its “permissive” state and license it to destroy cancer. When successful, immunity does all of the work to eliminate the cancer, just as it would if it were eliminating an infectious agent like a virus, bacterium, or other harmful microorganism. Immunoprofiler has nucleated a unique industry-academic partnership to understand the immunological basis for cancer.

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