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"It's a minority of patients, but the responses are durable once you've got them, " said James Allison, a researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center whose work was instrumental in discovering the immune-system brakes and in the development of Yervoy.
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The three drugs in the studies essentially work by releasing the brakes on the immune system to allow it to recognize and go after tumor cells.
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The object information is then processed and passed on to the Continental Motion Domain Controller to control the vehicle's longitudinal and lateral motion via signals to the engine, the brakes and the steering system.
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It turns out cancer shields itself by essentially putting the brakes on the human immune system.
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But tumors can quell the immune system by activating other brakes.
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Otherwise, you get a system that has no brakes.
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In addition to the aforementioned traction-control system, standard features include ABS brakes, electronic brake assistance, child safety locks and driver, passenger and side-head air bags.
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The drugs that Belvin and Rick took released one of those brakes (CTLA4), allowing the fury of the immune system to be unleashed on the tumor.
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All the critical systems in a modern car -- engine, transmission, brakes, stability controls -- are linked to a single electronic system called the Controller Area Network bus, or CAN bus.
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The auto industry has intensified its research on how to link cruise control, steering, brakes and the cameras and sensors used for collision-avoidance systems into an integrated system able to guide a car safely.
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As the anticipated time-to-impact decreases, CMS prepares the car for sudden braking by moving the brake pads nearer to the brake disks, and finally, when the system concludes that a collision is less than one second away, it starts to apply the brakes itself.
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