In a way never tried before.
Though much research has been carried out on cancer and the transformation of healthy cells into malignant ones, scientists have known very little about the possibility of the opposite process so far.
“We know that one strategy that human tumors have to dodge the effectiveness of drugs is to change their appearance, becoming another similar cancer but insensitive to the drug used,” the team said to the Jerusalem Post. “For example, leukemias of the lymphoid lineage are switched to the myeloid strain to escape treatment.”In this direction, the scientists worked on an in vitro model through which leukemia cells can be turned into harmless immune cells called macrophages.
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