Programming the Body to Fight Cancer

Curiosity Daily by Cody Gough

Jul 15, 202628:40Society & Culture

There is some recent research that’s testing out cancer treatments that can utilize the power of our immune systems to attack cancer cells. It’s called CAR T-cell therapy and it involves programming immune cells to targe...

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