Scientists Engineer Nonimmune Cells That Kill Cancer Upon Contact
“In the continuous search for potentially cancer-curing treatments, researchers have turned to engineering cells. They’ve found that modifying immune cells so that they recognize cancer cells, a technique called chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, can be effective. One such treatment has already been given the green light by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Reprogramming immune cells for therapeutic purposes is appealing because this mechanism could potentially work with whatever type of cancer. However, this technique has one slight problem — modifying immune cells can lead to a number of complications, which range from a simple fever to even death as a result of the immune system overreacting.
A trio of researchers may have found a way around this, according to a recently published study in the journal Nature Chemical Biology. Instead of editing immune cells, they opted for modifying nonimmune cells and giving them the same cancer-killing abilities that CAR T-cell therapy does…”
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