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"textContent": "A research team from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has discovered how the immune system's CD8+ T cells use the nutrient cysteine to control two essential functions that compete for this resource—the immune cell's ability to multiply and its ability to kill cancer cells.",
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