a: checkpoint CTLA-4 ~
b: car brakes
What:
"Dr. Allison identified a checkpoint called CTLA-4. Dr. Honjo found a different one, called PD-1. Those discoveries made it possible to develop drugs that would stop the checkpoints from working, so that the T-cells would be free to fight cancer. The process is often referred to as taking the brakes off the immune system."
Useful?
Writer: Denise Grady
LCC:
Where:
Date: Oct 20 2018 3:28 PM
# 11967 Critique Analogy