science-fictionlike

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1. Resembling science fiction.

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   This radical, science-fictionlike therapy differs sharply from the more established type of immunotherapy, developed by other researchers. Those off-the-shelf drugs, known as checkpoint inhibitors, release a molecular brake on the immune system, freeing it to fight the cancer much as it fights infections by bacteria or viruses.

   2016 August 1, Andrew Pollack, “Setting the Body's 'Serial Killers' Loose on Cancer”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2023

   Synonyms: science-fictiony, science-fictionish