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Can nanomaterials really stimulate the immune system to fight cancer?
It is reported that recently, Dr. Yuan Hengfeng from Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, Dr. Jiang Wen, an American scholar, and the research team of Mayo Clinic published a research paper entitled "engager for Targeted Tumor Immunotherapy" in the journal Nature. This research project mainly designs new anti-cancer nanoparticles, which can actively mobilize the whole immune system to kill cancer cells and promote the body to produce its own memory system, thus minimizing tumor recurrence.

It is reported that Dr. Yuan and his team have begun to develop a new generation of immune nano-drugs, exploring the possibility of nanoparticles to prevent long-term recurrence of cancer and multiple metastasis of cancer in situ. Dr. Yuan said: In the future, nano-medicine will become a favorable means to treat or even cure cancer, but there is still a long way to go.

The paper also said that cancer cells are actually "liar" cells, which make good use of their "lies" and pretend to be normal cells without being recognized, so that they can live in the human body with peace of mind; At the same time, the vitality of many cancer cells is extremely tenacious. Even if most of its members are killed, a small number of surviving cells can quickly "start all over again", which is the main reason why cancer is difficult to treat at present!

This time, the joint team of China and the United States knows the inferiority of cancer cells. They have developed a kind of nanoparticles, which can specifically identify cancer cells and continue to carry out precise attacks, so that cancer cells have "nowhere to escape"!

At present, the toxicity test of the second generation products has begun, with a view to applying them to human bodies in the future. At the same time, the research on the production method, mass production technology and dose test of nano-immune particles is also in full swing in Zhongshan Hospital. At present, there are too many cancer and panic patients in the world, and researchers hope that nano-medicine can bring dawn to these patients.