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T-cell that can fight all cancers: Scientists discover promising part of our immune system

James Gallagher | 
Our immune system is our body's natural defence against infection, but it also attacks cancerous cells. The scientists were looking ...
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Dangers of CAR-T treatments linked to ‘particularily messy’ method of killing tumors

Erin Garcia de Jesus | 
Techniques to genetically modify patient immune cells have revolutionized the fight against hard-to-treat cancers. But they can come with dangerous ...
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Expensive CAR-T therapy raises difficult question: ‘What is the price of a human life?’

Jonathan Jarry | 
A new type of therapy for certain blood cancers is ingenious but it raises important questions about its cost, both ...
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Podcast: Genetically engineered CAR-T cell therapies destroy cancer cells. Here’s how they work

Joe Fraietta, Kevin Folta | 
Many millions of words have been written about GMO crops. As a result, most people know they can now buy ...
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This company wants to freeze your T cells for future cancer treatments. Experts call the idea ‘unproven’

Nicoletta Lanese | 
A new cryopreservation bank offers customers the chance to stash away their T cells for use in future cancer treatments ...
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Powerful CAR-T duo uses artificial ‘claws’ to grab and destroy HIV

Shelly Fan | 
Lengtigen, a biotech company based in Gaithersburg, MD, teamed up with researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in ...
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Podcast: Battle to conquer HIV with biotechnology is on. How much progress have we made?

Kevin Folta, Pamela Skinner | 
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is to blame for one of the worst public health crises the world has ever ...
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Putting CAR-T cancer therapy ‘on a leash’ could halt deadly runaway immune reactions

Shelly Fan | 
Unlike traditional chemicals, CAR-T cells are living drugs that further proliferate inside the body. While great for replenishing their cancer-killing ...
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Fine-tuning CAR-T cancer therapy could eliminate serious side effects, study says

Damian Garde | 
A novel approach to CAR-T cancer therapy promises to upend what has become a truism in medicine: that the treatment’s dramatic effect ...
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Costly CAR T-cell therapy gets boost with Medicare proposal to increase reimbursements

Laurie McGinley | 
Medicare officials on [April 23] proposed increasing reimbursements for a groundbreaking but costly cancer therapy used for patients whose blood ...
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Can CAR-T cell therapy tackle solid tumors too?

Kerry Grens | 
Last summer, [Cecelia] Barron’s cancer went from stage 2 to stage 3 oligodendroglioma. Behnam Badie, her surgeon at City of Hope, ...
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CAR-T cell therapy and the promise of immune cells engineered to fight cancer

David Haas | 
The National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 1.7 million people will be diagnosed with cancer this year. To cope ...
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