US Scientists recently developed cells that can destroy leukemia within three weeks. It could lead to new and effective treatments for the fatal blood cancer.A new technique was engineered that involved leukemia patients being treated with their own T cells. T cells are a type of white blood cell that was genetically modified to attack and destroy tumours within the body of the patient.
White blood cells are unable to distinguish tumour cells from healthy tissue, which allows the cancer to spread unchecked.
To overcome this problem, scientists inserted a protein called a chimeric antigen receptor in the white blood cells to enable them to attack tumour cells. The inserted protein will bind with another protein called CD19 which is present in Leukemia tumour cells. It results into the multiplication of T cells.
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