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Yervoy, which is now available, acts by revving up the body's immune system, turning off the brakes on key disease fighters called T-cells.
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Earlier attempts at genetically modifying bloodstream soldiers called T-cells have had limited success; the modified cells didn't reproduce well and quickly disappeared.
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The University of Pennsylvania treatment takes a patient's so-called T-cells, crucial sentinels of the immune system, and uses a virus to insert a gene that reprograms the cell into a hybrid that includes properties of T-cells and another immune-system cell called a B-cell.
Gene Treatment Offers Hope in Leukemia Cases Ron Winslow 2011
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The virus targets special immune system soldiers called T-cells.
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Studies in mice suggest that oral insulin may induce certain immune cells known as T-cells to suppress other immune cells that attack the pancreatic beta cells.
Trying to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes Shirley S. Wang 2011
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Yervoy, which is now available, acts by revving up the body's immune system, turning off the brakes on key disease fighters called T-cells.
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Yervoy, which is now available, acts by revving up the body's immune system, turning off the brakes on key disease fighters called T-cells.
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Studies in mice suggest that oral insulin may induce certain immune cells known as T-cells to suppress other immune cells that attack the pancreatic beta cells.
Trying to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes Shirley S. Wang 2011
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Normally our body activates cancer-fighting antibodies or white cells, known as T-cells, to combat cancer.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People Jack Canfield 2009
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Normally our body activates cancer-fighting antibodies or white cells, known as T-cells, to combat cancer.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People Jack Canfield 2009
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