# Tiny implantable device designed by UCLA scientists helps kill cancer

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/tiny-implantable-device-designed-by-ucla-scientists-helps-kill-cancer-2/
- Published: 2023-01-14T09:15:43-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image credit: Negin Majedi / Symphony Biosciences. Article by Wayne Lewis. UCLA Newsroom – January 4, 2023. A therapeutic sponge the size of a pencil eraser boosted the body’s tumor-fighting response in mice and kept the cancer from returning Many solid tumors resist treatment in part by turning human biology against itself. Tumors surround themselves with extra white blood cells known as regulatory T cells, which call off the body’s natural defenses against the disease. Strategies to treat cancer by deactivating these cells risk creating […] Click here to view original web page at newsroom.ucla.edu