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Engineering T cells
Engineering T cells is a broad description of techniques used to modify a T cells obtained from a patient or healthy donor. T cells are a subset of immune cells responsible for targeting and killing tumor cells. Once harvested from a patient or donor, the T cells can be engineered in a laboratory making them better capable of killing a specific tumor. Examples of adoptive cell therapies using engineered T cells are T cell receptor (TCR)-engineered T cells and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells.
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DEC 24, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
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Humans are not alone in developing Alzheimer's Disease, although it is seen in very few other species.Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 27, 2017Genetics & Genomics
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With cancer putting up such strong fight, scientists are resorting to more unconventional therapies to give them the edg ...
DEC 24, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
The seasonal theme of these gorgeous images was generated using a new laser-based imaging technique for monitoring cells
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 21, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Life as we know it has been classified into three domains. They were thought to be utterly different, but new work has i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 16, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
Some diseases are directly related to dysfunction in the immune system, like type 1 diabetes. Scientists want to use rep
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 05, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
Summary of ethical principles for biotechnology advances in human disease set forth by global summit
Written By:
Courtney Schaal
DEC 02, 2017
Cardiology
If human heart cells could regenerate the way salamander or zebrafish cells can, then perhaps cardiovascular disease wou
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 30, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists succeeded in creating bacteria that carry two additional nucleotide bases in their genetic code.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 25, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Antibiotic resistance is a growing health problem, one that already kills an estimated 23,000 people every year in the U
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 18, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
Scientists in Europe Use Genetically Modified Patient Stem Cells to Graft Whole Body Skin
Written By:
Courtney Schaal
NOV 16, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
Genome editing, now inspired by yeast, aims to turn a 'hacksaw to a scalpel.'
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 16, 2017
Health & Medicine
Classic science fiction movies and even cartoons from decades ago predicted flying cars and food replicators and apartme
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 15, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
Every year the James Dyson Foundation, named after the famed vacuum designer and engineer, gives tens of thousands dolla
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
NOV 14, 2017
Immunology
The Zika virus is mostly portrayed in the media as an ultra dangerous infection that causes all sorts of problems in tho
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 10, 2017
Cancer
By carefully observing how DNA is packaged inside of cancer cells, scientists have developed a therapy that they say can
...
OCT 28, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Humans are not alone in developing Alzheimer's Disease, although it is seen in very few other species.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 27, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have made many advances in gene-editing technology in recent years, and it's undergoing constant improvement
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 27, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
Just how far are we from the world of hydrogen-powered transportation? The answer is obvious: pretty far. But the good n
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
OCT 19, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
Our genome contains thousands of genes, each of which has to be turned on and off at precisely the right times.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 10, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
We’ve all experienced the annoying Band-Aid that won’t stay on when wet. And when it comes to bigger cuts an
...
OCT 09, 2017
Microbiology
The influenza viruses that cause flu in people have high rates of mutation that allows them to evolve quickly, and scien
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 27, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Our body is made up of many different kinds of cells, and inside each cell are organelles, tiny machines that help carry
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 26, 2017
Neuroscience
Brain cancer, in all of its forms, is a highly aggressive form of the disease, that has proven difficult to access and t
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 26, 2017
Immunology
With no FDA-approved vaccines or antiviral drugs to treat Ebola, those affected rely on the immune system to save them f
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 23, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has used $20 million to create a consortium of universities that will support a ne
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 22, 2017
Cancer
With cancer putting up such strong fight, scientists are resorting to more unconventional therapies to give them the edg
...