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Collecting CAR parts

How Cell Medica plans to use Delenex, Baylor tech in CAR platform for solid tumors

July 25, 2016 7:00 AM UTC

While CAR T cell therapies have produced impressive response rates in blood cancers, the approach has so far shown limited effect in solid tumors, partly due to poor localization of T cells in tumor sites. Cell Medica Ltd. has therefore been assembling a tool kit to develop and improve upon a chimeric antigen receptor natural killer T cell platform.

Unlike T cells, which circulate in the blood, NKT cells localize in solid tumors in response to chemokines produced by tumor cells...