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New approach enables body to engineer its own cells to fight cancer or autoimmunity (www.science.org)
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Genetically modified cells known as chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells have become potent cancer fighters, and scientists are now studying them as treatments for autoimmune diseases and other illnesses. But making them involves harvesting and transforming a person’s immune cells—a process that can take so long that patients sometimes die before the therapy is ready.

A new approach induces the patient’s body to produce its own CAR-T cells, relying on the same messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that was instrumental for some COVID-19 vaccines.

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