Sentences with phrase «modified killer cells»

In clinical trials the treatment — which involves extracting individual patients» immune T - cells, modifying them to seek out tell - tale biological markers associated with blood cancers like aggressive lymphoma, and then pumping those modified killer cells back into the body — has shown major promise, in some cases eliminating all signs of the cancer in patients six months after treatment.

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For every modified T cell infused into the patients» blood, at least 1000 tumor cells were killed, leading the researchers to dub the T cells «serial killers.»