logo
welcome
Live Science

Live Science

'Like a reset button on a computer': Designer cells 'reboot' immune system in 3 different autoimmune diseases

Live Science
Summary
Nutrition label

80% Informative

In an early-stage clinical trial, scientists used designer immune cells to "reboot" the immune systems of patients with autoimmune diseases.

The trial used a form of chimeric antigen receptor ( CAR ) T cell therapy, which has become a mainstay treatment for blood cancers, like leukemia.

If this therapy proves effective in larger, longer follow-up trials, it could change the way autoimmune diseases are treated.