Heavy Metal Enlightens Tumor Immunity

Jonathan H Chen1, Karin Pelka2, Nir Hacohen2

  • 1Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Center for Cancer Research, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

Cell
|May 6, 2017
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