Immunotherapy with CAR T-cells (VIDEO)

University of Zurich

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Genetically modified immune cells attack and destroy the leukemia and blood stem cells that have a receptor (CD117) on their surface (left), while all other blood cells that do not have the receptor are spared (right).

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