Researchers at Tel Aviv University say they developed an effective treatment for melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, that proved encouraging in a study on mice.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University, the Wolfson Medical Center, and the Tel Aviv Medical Center show how proteins from fat cells communicate with melanoma cells, stimulating their growth.

One of the latest attempts to boost the body’s defenses against cancer is called adoptive cell transfer. But this therapy is extremely expensive and not always technically feasible. Israeli scientists have now tested in mice a new form of the therapy, which overcomes the limitations and enhances the tumor-fighting ability of the cells.