Immunotherapy: the future of science and medicine?
Immunotherapy is a diverse and broad catch-all for any treatments and therapies that utilize the patient’s own immune response to mount a defense.
Immunotherapy is a diverse and broad catch-all for any treatments and therapies that utilize the patient’s own immune response to mount a defense.
In this webinar, we highlight a variety of assays to support the development of cell therapies for solid tumors.
Cellometer automated cell counters have been facilitating CAR T manufacturing with accurate cell counting and analysis since 2010.
Emily Whitehead, cancer survivor, holding Nexcelom cell counting sheep. Thanks to the lifesaving T cell therapy clinical trial at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Emily Whitehead is now two years cancer free. Diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) right after her 5th birthday, doctors discovered that Emily’s leukemia was particularly resistant to chemotherapy, as are roughly 15% of the total number of ALL cases. After two recurrences of the disease, Emily’s parents enrolled her in a clinical trial for CTL019, an experimental therapeutic using a patient’s own reprogrammed T cells to eliminate the cancer cells. Now 9 years old, [...]