00:00Scientists may have found a way to help immune cells fight cancer for longer, Fox News reports.
00:06Researchers at the UCLA Health Johnson Comprehensive Cancer Center studied a protein called P-FD3.
00:12They found that temporarily boosting it helped prepared immune cells stay stronger.
00:17Those cells killed more melanoma cells in laboratory experiments.
00:21The study was published in Frontiers in Immunology.
00:24It focused on T-cells.
00:25Some cancer treatments take a patient's T-cells, modify them in a lab, and return them to the body.
00:32A challenge is that the cells can become exhausted and less effective.
00:36The team treated human T-cells with an experimental drug called neftimidline.
00:41The treated cells showed fewer signs of exhaustion and had more energy.
00:45Higher doses killed more T-cells, while lower doses worked without losing many healthy cells.
00:50The findings are preliminary, and the experiments used cells in a dish, not patients.
00:56Disclosure.
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