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Journal Club: Slaying the Sleeper Cells of Aging with CAR T

2020-08-09 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·18m 0s ·by Andreessen Horowitz
Journal Club: Slaying the Sleeper Cells of Aging with CAR T
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About this episode

CAR T therapy is a groundbreaking medicine that uses engineered T cells to attack cancer. But CAR T cells (that is, chimeric antigen receptor T cells) can be programmed to recognize a huge range of target proteins and cell types. So what other types of cells should we train CAR Ts to recognize and d