{"id":35907,"date":"2017-04-05T14:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T21:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/artificial-thymus-can-produce-cancer-fighting-t-cells-from-blood-stem-cells"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:06:09","slug":"artificial-thymus-can-produce-cancer-fighting-t-cells-from-blood-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/artificial-thymus-can-produce-cancer-fighting-t-cells-from-blood-stem-cells","title":{"rendered":"Artificial thymus can produce cancer-fighting T cells from blood stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first step in producing an artificial thymus which has potential for cancer age related immune decline.<\/p>\n

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UCLA researchers have created a new system to produce human T cells, the white blood cells that fight against disease-causing intruders in the body. The system could be utilized to engineer T cells to find and attack cancer cells, which means it could be an important step toward generating a readily available supply of T cells for treating many different types of cancer.<\/p>\n

The preclinical study, published in the journal Nature Methods<\/i>, was led by senior authors Dr. Gay Crooks, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and of pediatrics and co-director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, and Amelie Montel-Hagen, an associate project scientist in Crooks\u2019 lab.<\/p>\n

The thymus sits in the front of the heart and plays a central role in the immune system. It uses blood stem cells<\/a> to make T cells, which help the body fight infections and have the ability to eliminate cancer cells. However, as people age or become ill, the thymus isn\u2019t as efficient at making T cells.<\/p>\n

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The first step in producing an artificial thymus which has potential for cancer age related immune decline. UCLA researchers have created a new system to produce human T cells, the white blood cells that fight against disease-causing intruders in the body. The system could be utilized to engineer T cells to find and attack cancer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58166,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35907\/revisions\/58166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}