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To eat and not to eat

New way to boost ‘eat me’ signal on cancer cells could complement CD47 blockade

September 19, 2018 9:32 PM UTC

A Nature Communications paper published last month by Forty Seven Inc. (NASDAQ:FTSV) co-founder Irving Weissman and colleagues at Stanford University highlights a new strategy for boosting “eat me” signals on cancer cells that could complement CD47 blockade.

Weissman is a professor of pathology and developmental biology and director of the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford, as well as a member of Forty Seven’s board...