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Improving quality control for CAR T cell therapies

Drug Discovery World

In 1987, researchers developed the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) as an alternative means to identify cancer cells and direct T cells to attack them. Exactly three decades later, the first CAR T cell therapy hit the market. Training T cells to target tumours. 2021) 14:7. 21: N Albinger, J Hartmann, E Ullrich.

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