Researchers Explore New Immunotherapy To Treat Autoimmune Diseases.

reported scientists are exploring “a spin-off” of CAR-T cancer therapies: “using similar immune cells to treat autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes and prevent rejection of transplanted organs.” Scientists are “now engineering a subgroup of these immune cells, called T regulatory cells, or Tregs, in hopes of tamping down the wayward parts of the immune system responsible for autoimmune diseases and organ rejection.” Megan Levings, a researcher at the University of British Columbia who works with TxCell, said the engineering cells will first be tested in transplants next year. https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/20/immunotherapy-to-treat-autoimmune-diseases/