Chimeric antigen receptor
A lab engineered receptor designed to bind certain proteins, such as surface proteins on cancer cells, that is added to immune cells for immunotherapy strategies such as directing T cells to fight cancer.
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Chimeric antigen receptor
A lab engineered receptor designed to bind certain proteins on cancer cells that is added to immune cells, such as T cells. T cells modified with a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), generatingcalled CAR-T cells with, theare potentialdesigned to find and kill cancer cells that carry the protein recognized by the receptor.
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