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Anti-cancer CAR-T therapy reengineers T cells to kill tumors – and researchers are expanding the limited types of cancer it can target

  • Written by Gregory Allen, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
imageKiller T cells (green and red), or cytotoxic T cells, surround a cancer cell (blue, center).NICHD/J. Lippincott-Schwartz, CC BY-NC-ND

Teaching the body’s immune cells to recognize and fight cancer is one of the holy grails in medicine. Over the past two decades, researchers have developed new immunotherapy drugs that stimulate a...

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