LimitedDuck@septic.wintoScience@beehaw.org•T cells burn out just a few hours after encountering cancer tumorsEnglish
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1 year agoIsn’t this a strange article title? The whole point of it is to show T cells don’t actually get “burned out” at all. And imo it’s not like the real reason is uninteresting.
Why dress the article in the exact thing it’s refuting?
IMO the title is incorrect because the common interpretation of getting “burned out” is that of the same individuals of a population losing effectiveness after working hard. The article even likens the term “exhausted” the same interpretation of the phrase:
This same quote describes the truth of the phenomenon where it’s not individuals getting “exhausted”, but cellular signalling permanently altering the expression of T cells to make them less and less effective.
A more correct title would be something like: