Aplidin is extracted from Aplidium albicans, a sea squirt found off the coast of Spain.
“If you get a drug that targets a human protein, it would be incredibly hard for the virus to mutate away from being reliant on it,” said Nevan Krogan, the director of QBI.
Tejal Desai, PhD, and colleagues took inspiration from the structure of DNA to engineer a biomaterial that promises to improve CAR-T cell therapy for various cancers.
Advance opens up new possibilities for CAR T-cell therapy to treat a variety of cancers