Dr. Jan Böttcher (left) and first author Sebastian Lacher (right): A team of researchers has discovered coverred a mechanism by which tumors prevent stem-like T cells from developing into cytotoxic T cells. (IMAGE)

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Dr. Jan Böttcher (left) and first author Sebastian Lacher (right): A team of researchers has discovered coverred a mechanism by which tumors prevent stem-like T cells from developing into cytotoxic T cells.

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Dr. Jan Böttcher, group leader and TUM Junior Fellow at the Institute of Molecular Immunology at Klinikum rechts der Isar (left) and doctoral student Sebastian Lacher in front of an immunofluorescence microscopy image of a tumor in which tumor-infiltrating immune cells can be seen. In the journal "Nature", the scientists describe a mechanism by which tumors prevent stem cell-like T cells from developing into cytotoxic T cells that could fight the cancer.

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