It took about 100 days for the patients to start making new healthy cells.
Autoimmune diseases happen when the body's natural defense system can't tell the difference between its own cells and foreign ones, causing it to attack normal cells and create havoc.
The treatment is called CAR-T therapy, and it has been previously used against some cancers. It involves modifying a patient’s T cells, a part of the immune system that focuses on specific foreign particles, and triggering them into seeking out and destroying a specific target in the body.What is the target? The notorious B cells, a part of the immune system that focuses on specific foreign particles and develops self-attacking autoantibodies in people with lupus.
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