Police in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, say they are unable to find any third-party involvement in the deaths of two nursing home residents whose bodies were found on Saturday, and now believe it was a murder-suicide. Police suspect Takeshi Egawa, 79, fatally stabbed a 70-year-old resident in the neck before…
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis scientists have shown that the cancer therapy known as CAR-T can be applied to multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease of the nervous system. The findings extend the powerful tool of immunotherapy to autoimmune diseases, a class of diseases that are often debilitating and difficult to treat.
The cancer therapy known as CAR-T has revolutionized treatment of some blood cancers since it was introduced in 2017. The therapy uses genetically altered immune cells to home in on cancer cells and destroy them.
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CAR-T, a therapy generally used in the treatment of cancer, has been shown to eliminate unhealthy cells that trigger autoimmunity in mouse models of multiple-sclerosis.