Cancer Antigens Discerned by Seeing Them through Immune Cell Eyes

Cancer is a target-rich environment, but the targets can be hard to see. Even when cancer cells display antigens that are recognized by immune cells—as is evident when an immune cell receptor infiltrates a cancer cell—the antigens remain obscure. But antigen identification, which amounts to the identification of matched antigen–receptor pairs, may become more practical, say scientists based at Stanford University.These scientists have developed a new kind of screen. It builds o