‘It’s All Gone’: CAR-T Therapy Forces Autoimmune Diseases Into Remission

December 12, 2023

A pipette dripping liquid into a cell array

(Nature) – Engineered immune cells have given 15 people with once-debilitating autoimmune disorders a new lease on life, free from fresh symptoms or treatments. The results raise hopes that the approach — called CAR-T-cell therapy — might one day be extended to a variety of other conditions fuelled by rogue immune cells that produce antibodies against the body’s own tissues. (Read More)