Lung Tumors (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lung Tumors

Caption

A new MIT study explains why dendritic cells (green) in lymph nodes that drain from the lungs fail to stimulate killer T cells (white) to attack lung tumors.

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MIT

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