Immune-boosting CAR-T therapy removes a patient’s white blood cells and engineers them into highly specialised cancer killers in a lab. Car-T cell therapy removes a patient's blood cells and ...

A normal patient's blood contains two types of white blood cells, B and T cells. T cells are separated from the white blood cells and then genetically modified using viral vectors. These ...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is a form of immunotherapy where a patient’s own T-cells – a type of white blood cell – are altered in a lab to target and kill cancer cells.

Most of the solid organ malignancies render the white blood cells (neutrophils) dysfunctional, and thus they are relatively lower on immunity than the normal population. In these many ways ...

Your blood contains several different types of cells, including red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Doctors order blood tests to examine these cells for signs of health problems.

The Legend immunotherapy is a type known as CAR-T. It is delivered as an infusion of the patient’s own white blood cells that have been removed and engineered to attack the cancer. The treatment ...

Although blood clots are partially made up of red blood cells, they're held together by tangles of a thread-like protein known as fibrin. Existing clot-removal treatments typically involve ...

Is White Coat Syndrome Real? White coat syndrome (also called white coat hypertension) happens when your blood pressure goes up at the doctor’s office, but is normal when you’re at home.

After removing the immune cells, called T cells, from a person’s blood, physicians ship them off to a manufacturer, where technicians genetically engineer the cells to carry a specialized ...

Regardless of the underlying cause, the symptoms remain remarkably consistent as your body struggles to cope with insufficient healthy red blood cells. Blood serves as your body’s transportation ...

NHSBT aims to have six days’ worth of stock of all types of red blood cells. But four bank holidays in close succession have meant supplies have dropped below this level for several types ...

According to a special issue of the journal Science, the recognition that inflammation is a primary pathophysiologic mechanism in chronic illness is one of the major scientific insights of the ...