Optimizing the Body’s Natural Cancer Killers
Optimizing the Body’s Natural Cancer Killers https://pediatricsnationwide.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/NK-Cell-Cover-Art-web-crop-1024x649.jpg 1024 649 Katie Brind'Amour, PhD, MS, CHES https://pediatricsnationwide.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Katie-B-portrait.gifRecent advances in the expansion and production of natural killer cells offers pediatric patients new hope for remission after high-risk cancer diagnoses. Natural killer (NK) cells are the innate immune system’s first line of defense for viral infections. Although these white blood cells don’t have the antigen-specific “memory” that characterizes T cells or the antibody-producing…
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