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Asgard teaches tumours to self‑destruct – moving closer to clinical trials

Swedish biotech Asgard Therapeutics not only has an evocative name, but also a remarkably exciting approach to cancer treatment: getting tumour cells to reprogram themselves so that they become visible to the body’s immune system.
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It has now been just over eight years since three Portuguese medical researchers packed their bags and moved to Lund. They brought with them ideas for a new type of immunotherapy with the potential to fight all kinds of solid tumours, and thereby go a step further than the therapies available today.

A challenge for immunotherapies in cancer treatment is that tumour cells have the ability to make themselves invisible to the immune system. They hide from the T cells — the killer cells — whose job is to eliminate them. But the three researchers had discovered a way to get around that.

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