Cancer cells ‘poison’ the immune system with tainted mitochondria

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Immune cells lose their cancer-fighting prowess after taking tumours’ organelles on board.

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  1. Asher Mullard

    1. Asher Mullard is a science journalist based in Ottawa.

Cancer cells can poison attacking immune cells by filling them with defective mitochondria ― dampening the body’s defensive forces and helping the tumour to evade eradication1.

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