University of Massachusetts

The LyoBay at Umass Lowell has been created to serve as a research test bed for preclinical process monitoring, development and scale-up

The researchers hypothesised in the presence of mRNA let-7 molecules, T cells are quiet and the immune system is inactive, but when a threat is sensed, let-7 molecules disappear, which allows T cells to become functionally cytotoxic and able to clear pathogens, including tumour cells