Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Could traditional radiation treatments work in concert with immunotherapy to mount a more effective assault on cancer?
Whenever anyone from Gerry Wright’s laboratory goes on vacation, they come back with a small plastic bag of dirt. Usually these muddy mementos yield nothing of interest. But one graduate student’s soil souvenir from a hiking trip in Eastern Canada produced a compound that could hold the key to combating one of the world’s most insidious groups of superbugs.
An exploration of what might be possible when basic researchers and physicians collaborate as part of an area sometimes called “evolutionary medicine.”