Cell-killing cancer therapy shows promise for a devastating autoimmune disorder | Science
Opening a new frontier in fighting autoimmune disease, researchers have successfully treated five lupus patients with a novel cell therapy that turns run-of-the-mill immune cells into specialized hunters of rogue cells helping fuel illness. The patients treated with the new therapy all saw their severe symptoms, including kidney and other organ dysfunction, largely disappear.
The results “are phenomenal,” says Betty Diamond, an immunologist and rheumatologist at the Feinstein…