Scientists are now taking samples of immune cells from humans to grow cells for immunotherapy.
This currently most effective method of fighting cancer has two significant disadvantages - it takes 6 to 8 weeks to produce cells, and they live in the body for only a few days.
Researchers have proposed a new way of growingcells - in the analogue of human lymph nodes created from hydrogel. This has reduced the time to grow more than 150 thousand cells — enough for a cancer therapy — to one week.
It was previously reported that engineers from the University of Vienna are developing a vest with flexible radio frequency coils designed to detect breast cancer in the early stages.