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Woah. That is seriously cool, that we can do that. Congratulations on your recovery, and thanks for going through that for science. Can you maybe elaborate a l
by PeCaN 9y ago
Woah. That is seriously cool, that we can do that. Congratulations on your recovery, and thanks for going through that for science.
Can you maybe elaborate a little on how they selected the cells to lab-grow? Step 2 and 3, in particular. By what criteria did they divide them between petri dishes and how did they test how efficient they were at destroying cancer cells? (Did they feed them parts of your tumor or something?)
- byteCoder 9y agoI don't know all the technical measurements and details, but, yes, the researchers did feed them parts of my tumor.
- jfarlow 9y agoHere is a figure that illustrates the process for the CARs in the article (which is slightly different than OPs, but similar in result): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480367/figure/F1/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480367/figure/... Essentially it has 3 parts: - Extraction of tumor to test against. - Extraction of immune cells, to which a genetic therapy is applied that grants them a new tool to home in on the above tumor. - After testing the immune cells against the extracted tumor, reimplant the 'upgraded' immune cells.