🔴Penn Medicine Discovery Clarifies the Problem of T-Cell “Exhaustion”

“Scientists have known that T cells can lose their ability to fight viruses and tumors when they have prolonged exposure to these enemies.

Our findings suggest that once T cells become exhausted, they remain fundamentally ‘wired’ to be exhausted—thus it may be hard to get them to become effective virus- and cancer-fighters again.”

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2021/july/penn-medicine-discovery-clarifies-the-problem-of-t-cell-exhaustion

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