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‘Goldilocks’ binding strength determines anti - EurekAlert


Findings from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital showed that how tight a parental T cell binds to a cancer-related protein determines whether its offspring will become functional anti-cancer effector cells or dysfunctional “exhausted” T cells.

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