Scientists Advance Creation of ‘Artificial Lymph Node’ to Fight Cancer, Other Diseases


https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/scientists-advance-creation-of-artificial-lymph-node-to-fight-cancer-other-diseases

“In a proof-of-principle study in mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report the creation of a specialized gel that acts like a lymph node to successfully activate and multiply cancer-fighting immune system T-cells. The work puts scientists a step closer, they say, to injecting such artificial lymph nodes into people and sparking T-cells to fight disease.”