CAR T-cell immunotherapy is a powerful approach for treating certain leukemias and lymphomas, but it’s not available for many patients who need it. A new technique developed by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital could make CAR T-cell therapy more widely accessible. In CAR T-cell therapy, T cells from a patient’s own blood are engineered to carry so-called chimeric antigen receptors, or CARs, that enhance the T cells’ ability to attack and kill tumor cells.
