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  "id": 12152711,
  "title": "Cancer-fighting t cells burn out. Scientists may have found a fix",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/cancer-fighting-t-cells-burn-out-scientists-may-have-found-a-fix-12152711",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-05T09:24:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ScienceDaily Health",
    "slug": "sciencedaily-health",
    "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261001214127.htm"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Cancer immunotherapy can lose its punch when tumor-fighting T cells become exhausted, but researchers may have found a way to keep them going longer. Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center identified a signaling molecule called MEK that can push T cells to burn through their energy while producing cancer-killing proteins. In animal and laboratory studies, blocking MEK helped the…",
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        "title": "Cancer-fighting t cells burn out. Scientists may have found a fix",
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        "published": "2026-10-05T09:24:29.000Z"
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