Conjoined Cells Form a Potent Immunotherapy Combo

Shackled together, stem cells and platelets may help us escape cancer, report UCLA scientists. In the scientists’ new study, the cancer is leukemia, and the defiant ones include a guide, a hematopoietic stem cell (HSC), and a drug carrier, an engineered platelet. The guide brings the duo into bone marrow, and the drug carrier delivers checkpoint inhibition therapy.In experiments with mice that had acute myeloid leukemia, the UCLA team found that their unusual combination therapy halted the