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What’s Next For CAR T: The Potential of Engineering Immune Cells to Treat Cancer – R & D Magazine

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2017-11-13 NEWS

R & D Magazine

What’s Next For CAR T: The Potential of Engineering Immune Cells to Treat Cancer
R & D Magazine
CAR T-cell therapy is created by collecting a patient’s T-cells, genetically modifying them to fight cancer, and then infusing them back into the patient. The first therapy in this class, tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah), was FDA approved in August 2017 in …
Researchers Build a Cancer Immunotherapy Without Immune CellsThe Scientist

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Questions Remain With CAR–T’s, Checkpoints in Hematologic Malignancies
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Despite major progress with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy and immune checkpoint inhibitors in hematologic malignancies, questions remain regarding the use of these therapies in this landscape, according to Leo I. Gordon, MD.

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William & Mary News

William & Mary team wins First Runner-Up position in iGEM competition
William & Mary News
Each year iGEM hosts the largest synthetic–biology competition in the world, a months-long, student-driven projects involving biology, mathematics, chemistry and engineering. William & Mary’s team also won two special awards, one for Best Innovation in …