Research is at an early stage but scientists said it had huge potential for destroying cancers.
T-cell cancer therapies already exist and the development of cancer immunotherapy has been one of the most exciting advances in the field.
CAR-T can have dramatic results that transform some patients from being terminally ill to being in complete remission. And it has struggled to have any success in"solid cancers" - those that form tumours rather than blood cancers such as leukaemia.So how would it work in practice?Their T-cells would be extracted and then genetically modified so they were reprogrammed to make the cancer-finding receptor.
However, the research has been tested only in animals and on cells in the laboratory, and more safety checks would be needed before human trials could start.Lucia Mori and Gennaro De Libero, from University of Basel in Switzerland, said the research had"great potential" but was at too early a stage to say it would work in all cancers.
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