Cancer cells are cells gone wrong — in other words, they no longer respond to many of the signals that control cellular growth and death. Cancer cells originate within tissues and, as they grow ...
In the study, RNA was found to "trigger the development of a unique type of immune cell with anti-cancer properties," according to a press release from the Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic ...
The agency is also evaluating if there's a need for further regulatory action based on reports of hematologic malignancies from clinical trials of the therapy.
The cells were transduced with a lentiviral vector delivering the gene encoding the anti-sickling beta globin HbAS3 protein. The investigators showed that lentiviral transduction was enhanced by ...