HOW CAR-T CELLS ARE ENGINEERED TO FIGHT CANCER
HOW CAR-T CELLS ARE ENGINEERED TO FIGHT CANCER A chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) sprouts from the surface of a genetically reengineered white blood cell. The receptor is a manufactured protein, and designed by molecular biologists to seek out and interact with specific antigens appearing on cancer cells. Now empowered with CAR, these killer T-cells are […]
GIRL TREATED WITH CAR-T FOR NEUROBLASTOMA, IS STILL ALIVE AND HEALTHY 19 YEARS AFTER TREATMENT
GIRL TREATED WITH CAR-T FOR NEUROBLASTOMA, IS STILL ALIVE AND HEALTHY 19 YEARS AFTER TREATMENT In a recent study published in Nature Medicine, researchers report the successful treatment of a neuroblastoma patient with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy. A woman, now twenty-three years old and with two children, treated in 2006, with a pioneering […]