Aly Elezaby
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Aly Elezaby
@alyelezaby.bsky.social
Advanced Heart Failure, Transplant Cardiologist. Researcher in cardiac mitochondrial biology.
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Really interesting paper 🧪 🤩

Immune evasion through mitochondrial transfer 😮

Ikeda et al find that #mitochondria from cancer cells can #transfer over to T cells - altering their #metabolism & reducing antitumour immunity

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Cancer cells ‘poison’ the immune system with tainted mitochondria
Immune cells lose their cancer-fighting prowess after taking tumours’ organelles on board.
www.nature.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM