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Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have uncovered a new mechanism by which the body’s immune system responds to viral infections, a finding that can potentially be harnessed to attack cancer. The ...

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Viruses insert “transposable elements” into the genetic material of host cells to replicate. While cells’ defense mechanisms have learned to silence most of these viral insertions, a few “jumping ...