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Scientists AreDesigning Artisanal Proteins for Your Body

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from New York Times Science section - a little story to go with the immunotherapy. I am not entirely sure if this is a novel approach, or falls under a branch of CAR T. But I like the rapid increase in the number and progress of these new methods.

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It seems to be about the creation of custom moleclues, not necessarily of a kind to ramp up the immmune response, and surely not CAR-T, which requires the patient's T cells as a starting point.

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Re-read the article and you seem to be correct. I’ll take it as yet another approach to tame the beast.

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