Stem cell technology could help harness patients' own immune cells to fight disease
Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 14:00
in Health & Medicine
Researchers reporting in two separate recent articles used stem cell technology to successfully regenerate patients' immune cells, creating large numbers that were long-lived and could recognize their specified targets: HIV-infected cells in one case and cancer cells in the other. The findings could help in the development of strategies to rejuvenate patients' exhausted immune responses.