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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 03, 2016Plants & Animals
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Junk DNA refers to regions of the genome that did not at first appear to have any function or relevance. Research over t ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 02, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Pluripotent stem cells can form into any cell type in the human body through the process of normal human development. Cr ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 02, 2016Earth & The Environment
Last month, a team of scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago announced in the journal Science that they h ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 31, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have developed a genome editing technique that does not require DNA to be cleaved. Called Target-AID, the te ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 17, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
It’s long been accepted that proteins, RNA and DNA have to be stained to be visualized under fluorescence; the bel ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
DEC 03, 2016
Plants & Animals
Researchers have found a new class of photoreceptor protein known as LITE-1 in invertebrates that could be up to 50 time
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 23, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Reporting in Nature Medicine, researchers have been able to use stem cells to make intestinal organoids with functional
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 19, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
In a historic, landmark clinical trial, Chinese researchers injected a patient with a shot of CRISPR-edited white blood
...
NOV 11, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists are hard at work improving immune cells called T cells, which are naturally designed to recognize and target
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 08, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Engineers and scientists have long been trying to use cells to manufacture molecules that humans need, like biofuel or m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 03, 2016
Cancer
Adding to the astonishing list of organoids engineered in the lab, researchers at Cardiff University announced the devel
...
OCT 28, 2016
Microbiology
Ever wish you could predict the future? Researchers at UC Davis designed a computer model to do just that - if you&rsquo
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
OCT 26, 2016
Immunology
The newest effort in cancer treatment research involves the combination of not one, not two, not three, but four differe
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 12, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Almost four years ago a group of Nigerian teens unveiled a urine-powered generator at Maker Faire Africa in Lagos. Duro-
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 11, 2016
Videos
Space travel takes its toll on astronauts. Microgravity can affect muscle and bone growth. Radiation can cause damaging
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
OCT 08, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have created a portable way to make pharmaceuticals by using freeze-dried components that can make complex co
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 06, 2016
Videos
According to the American Cancer Society approximately 5.4 million basal and squamous cell skin cancer cases arise each
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 04, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Stabilizing the Ultimate Tumor Suppressor p53
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
SEP 21, 2016
Microbiology
Finding contamination in food is a very important public health concern. Infection from one specific pathogenic bacteriu
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 19, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
In the past year, biomedical engineers have created lab-grown heart cells, retinal nerve cells, and even vocal cords tha
...
SEP 17, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) affects nearly half of all men aged 51 - 60 and 90 percent of men older than 80 years
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 16, 2016
Microbiology
Listeria gets a pretty bad rap. And I’ll be honest, it probably deserves it. This is what happens when you are one
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 13, 2016
Microbiology
Iron is important to bacteria. Really important. It’s so important that bacteria secrete special molecules called
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 11, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Junk DNA refers to regions of the genome that did not at first appear to have any function or relevance. Research over t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 02, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Pluripotent stem cells can form into any cell type in the human body through the process of normal human development. Cr
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 02, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Last month, a team of scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago announced in the journal Science that they h
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 31, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have developed a genome editing technique that does not require DNA to be cleaved. Called Target-AID, the te
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 17, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
It’s long been accepted that proteins, RNA and DNA have to be stained to be visualized under fluorescence; the bel
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch