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Novel CAR T-cell therapy shows promising early results in children with neuroblastoma – News-Medical.Net
A novel CAR T-cell therapy developed by researchers at UCL and designed to target cancerous tumors, has shown promising early results in children with neuroblastoma,…
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 25 2020
A novel CAR T-cell therapy developed by researchers at UCL and designed to target cancerous tumors, has shown promising early results in children with neuroblastoma, a rare form of childhood cancer.
For this proof-of-principle study, researchers at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health (GOS ICH) and the UCL Cancer Institute modified the patient’s own T-cells (a type of immune cell), equipping them to recognize and kill neuroblastoma…
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