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Towards a personalized iPSC-based vaccine

A vaccine based on induced pluripotent stem cells mimicking the expression of tumour-cell antigens induces significant antitumour immune responses in mouse models.

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Fig. 1: Inducing immunity against multiple cancer types by using an iPSC-based cancer vaccine.

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Goyvaerts, C., Breckpot, K. Towards a personalized iPSC-based vaccine. Nat Biomed Eng 2, 277–278 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-018-0237-7

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