Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - This
weekend, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania announced that
they’ve made what they believe could be a huge breakthrough in cancer
treatment and screening with the creation of an “immunity passport” that
allows the body to accept foreign objects normally used for imaging or
during treatment.
According to a story aired by CBS News Philadelphia, the researchers created the “passport” to get past the immune cells in the body that work naturally to remove objects that don’t belong there. University of Pennsylvania Chemical bimolecular professor Dennis Discher, one of the individuals involved in the research, referred to the passport as a way “to get past the immune cells that act like customs officers, border immigration that sort of want to remove things that are foreign from things in the body.”
According to a story aired by CBS News Philadelphia, the researchers created the “passport” to get past the immune cells in the body that work naturally to remove objects that don’t belong there. University of Pennsylvania Chemical bimolecular professor Dennis Discher, one of the individuals involved in the research, referred to the passport as a way “to get past the immune cells that act like customs officers, border immigration that sort of want to remove things that are foreign from things in the body.”