FAIRFAX, Va., March 3 -- George Mason University issued the following news release:
In January, George Mason University senior Angela Victoria Rojas Rivera represented the university at the National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC). Led and hosted by Harvard University, NCRC is the largest student-run research conference in the United States. Only 200 students are selected to attend.
Rojas Rivera's project "Extracellular Vesicle-Driven Immune Programming at the Sentinel Lymph Node in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer" found a new immunotherapy approach that helps the body recognize breast cancer cells as a threat, allowing the immune system to respond faster.
"By changing the cancer's messages, this localized immunotherapy helps the imm...