Platelets found to mop up DNA fragments and improve early cancer detection
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Ludwig Cancer Research Sep 2 2025 Platelets are probably best known for their role in blood clotting, making scabs and related, if less salubrious, contributions to heart attacks and strokes. But these tiny, saucer-shaped blood cells have other physiological duties as well, including surveillance for viral or bacterial infections, the recruitment of immune cells to the site of a suspected incursion and even the direct destruction of pathogens. Now, thanks to the findings of a Ludwig Cancer
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