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Cell Engineering|Beginner2 min
How CAR-T Cell Therapy Works
Watch a patient's T-cells get reprogrammed to hunt and destroy cancer — from blood draw to tumor elimination, explained visually.
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What You'll Learn
- 1The 5-step CAR-T process: extract, engineer, expand, infuse, kill
- 2What a chimeric antigen receptor actually does on a T-cell
- 3Why CAR-T works so well for blood cancers (but struggles with solid tumors)
- 4How CRISPR is making next-gen 'off-the-shelf' CAR-T possible
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