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Immune cells lose their cancer-fighting prowess after taking tumours’ organelles on board.
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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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00176-2
Read the related News & Views, ‘Mitochondrial swap helps cancer fight immune cells’.
References
Ikeda, H. et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08439-0 (2025).
Saha, T. et al. Nature Nanotechnol. 17, 98–106 (2022).
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