Tag: Cancer Immunotherapy
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Your Gut Is Talking to Your Immune System: Could This Impact Cancer Immunotherapy?
Author: Priscilla Wong Image created by Priscilla Wong using ChatGPT We often just think of our gut as the organ responsible for digesting the food we eat. But do you know that it is the home to 95% of our body’s resident microbes? What’s more interesting is that the gut microbiome has been shown to…
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The hidden proteins helping scientists fight cancer
Author: Priscilla Wong Image created by Priscilla Wong using Gemini What if one of the best clues for identifying cancer cells came from proteins that are typically exclusive to the testes? This intriguing phenomenon is attributed to a group of unique proteins, termed cancer-testis antigens (CTA). CTAs were first discovered in 1991 and found to…