Cancer-promoting proteins may make tumors easier to spot... but also help them evade immune attack
The immune system may recognize a cancer cell and still fail to destroy it. In a recent study, researchers at Hiroshima University and their international collaborators found that hyperactive YAP and TAZ (YAP/TAZ), two cancer-promoting proteins, were associated with genomic instability that may make cancer cells more recognizable to the immune system, while also increasing PD-L2, which helps the…
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