Discovery of Tr1 cells as a barrier to cancer immunotherapy offers new hope for treatment

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Immunobiologists Robert Schreiber, PhD, (left) and Hussein Sultan, PhD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, found that a subset of immune cells that normally puts the brakes on the immune system to prevent it from attacking the body’s healthy cells inadvertently also dampens cancer immunotherapy.