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Mitochondrial swap from cancer to immune cells can cause damage totumour defences
Researchers claim to have discovered that “alien mitochondria” can steal T cell energy from healthy TILs. They found that TILs that had imbibed alien mitochondrial energy showed signs of T cell exhaustion, loss of cancer-killing potential. “My first thought was that this sounds crazy, like science fiction,” Holden Maecker, an immunologist at Stanford University, who…