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Thanks for the correction, I didn't know T cells multiply by themselves. Yet I assume they don't hang around permanently and will be sooner or later replaced by

by maga 10y ago

Thanks for the correction, I didn't know T cells multiply by themselves. Yet I assume they don't hang around permanently and will be sooner or later replaced by new, unmodified, cells produced by the body, hence, why I was asking about making permanent changes.

rgejman 10y ago
Maybe. We haven't been doing this long enough to know. T cells can divide into a T "memory" type, but I'm not sure if CAR-T cells do this.