SPOTLIGHT: Cutting-edge cancer treatment may also have potential for treating HIV - Daily Maverick


4/20/2022 12:00:00 AM3 yearsago
by Elri Voigt for Spotlight

Chimeric antigen receptors have mainly been making headlines as a cutting-edge form of cancer treatment. Recently, however, presentations on CARs have been given at HIV conferences. Elri Voigt asks what CARs actually are and how they might one day be used to …

On the face of it, the phrase chimeric antigen receptors (CARs for short) might not sound particularly exciting. But asClive Gray, Professor of Immunology in the Division of Molecular Biology and Hum… [+9973 chars]

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