Can We Cure Autoimmune Diseases?

What do you do when your body is the thing making you sick? In this video I discuss a paper that aims to fight fire with fire (or in this case fight immune cells with more immune cells) using Pemphigus Vulgaris (PV) as a test case.

Information from Ellebrecht et al. “Reengineering chimeric antigen receptor T cells for targeted therapy of autoimmune disease” Science 353 (2016). http://science.sciencemag.org/content...




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Host: Kate Bredbenner

Music:
"Odyssey" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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