303 | James P. Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System

1488.593 - 1511.845 James P. Allison

If it's a virus that's just infected a cell and the cell starts making bits of virus, I mean, making the parts of the virus that it needs to reproduce and go out and infect other cells, as they're making it, those proteins will be cut into little pieces and pieces that will be put on the surface. And if the right T cell comes by and says, whoops, that shouldn't be there, it'll kill it.