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To address this issue, the team created dendritic cells from healthy donors and fused them with cancer cells from patients, producing a personalized vaccine designed to activate the immune system against the individual's own tumor.

These "dendritic nanotubes," as the researchers call them, appeared to shuttle harmful molecules from one neuron to another.

These take instructions from the white blood cells known as dendritic cells, which he refers to as the "generals" of the immune system.

The immunotherapy leverages dendritic cells, critical components of the immune system that normally identify infection and mobilize other elements of immunity to repel a microbial attack.

Livingston says the artificial lymph node approach is different from a cancer vaccine, which typically activates a dendritic cell, an immune system component that teaches T-cells what to search for.