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Jan 2018

1h 23m

Immune 4: Putting the immunotherapy CAR ...

VINCENT RACANIELLO

About this episode

The immu-knowledge-ists deconstruct the holy grail of oncologists, cancer immunotherapy, and the exciting development of CAR T cells and how they work.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Stephanie Langel, and Cynthia Leifer

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Synthetic Immunoreceptors for Cancer Therapy (Trend Mol Med)
Engineering immune cells to treat cancer (Cell)
Engineering T cells for fungal infections (PNAS)
CAR T cells for AIDS (PLoS Path)
CAR T cells (NIH)
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