T-cells developed to combat cancer

Q.  Indian American scientist Dr. Sunil Hingorani has engineered a type of immune cells to treat pancreatic cancer. What are these called?
- Published on 20 Apr 16

a. A-cells
b. B-cells
c. D-cells
d. T-cells

ANSWER: T-cells
 
An Indian-American scientist has engineered T-cells - a type of immune cells - to break the pancreatic cancer's physical and immunological walls using immunotherapy.
  • Dr Sunil Hingorani, member of the clinical research and public health sciences unit at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre created T-cells with a high affinity to a relatively tumour-specific antigen.
  • Hingorani looked for proteins expressed in massive amounts in tumour cells and minimally expressed elsewhere- T-cells were then engineered to attack it.

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