Using Cancer To Fight Cancer | Vikki Academy

there is a time for war and a time for peace the Bible says but inside our body a continuous war is taking place between disease-causing agents and our own personal army our immune system among the many amazing warriors defending us from within our t cells T cells are a type of white blood cell that is equipped to identify foreign threats they have a cd28 protein receptor that makes them more active and potent they also have a pd-1 receptor that calms them down avoiding autoimmune diseases equipped also with a TCR receptor t-cells can scan our body for malicious foreign agents and destroy them but what do you do when the enemy is one of your own cells cancer cells are our own cells gone rogue they also have the ability to trick t-cells by sending PDL one proteins that suppress them they may slip through resulting in cancer professor cyril cohen and his colleagues at bar-ilan university set out to give t-cells a little help they devised a chimeric protein molecule using the receptor part of the pd-1 and the base part of the cd28 so now those fraudulent PDL one proteins are received by the PD one receptor of the chimera but the effect is reversed using an engineered virus they deliver the genetic code of the new protein to t-cells and sent them off to fight human cancer cells in vitro and in mice the new protein load also included a bonus feature of improved cancer recognition capabilities the results of the experiment showed a regression of tumors another step forward for T cell based immunotherapy and for the ongoing battle against cancer you

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Length: 2min 29sec (149 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 01 2015