dendritic
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The researchers demonstrated that blocking ALDH1a2, either through genetic techniques or with KyA33, restores dendritic cell maturation and their ability to activate immune defenses.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026
Until now, however, scientists did not understand how retinoic acid affects dendritic cells themselves.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026
To address this issue, the team created dendritic cells from healthy donors and fused them with cancer cells from patients, producing a personalized vaccine designed to activate the immune system against the individual's own tumor.
From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2025
"The immune system interprets this vaccine, based on dendritic cells from a healthy donor fused with the patient's tumor cells, as a transplant and reacts violently," said Barbuto.
From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2025
Those twisted dendritic legs get stuck in the pitch, and the stuff begins to pull me down like I’m a dinosaur in tar.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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