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Patent Filed Using Immune System Cells To Fight Disease

Published in Blood Weekly, February 17th, 1997

A technology able to enlist the cells of the body's own immune system rather than drugs to treat disease is outlined in a patent application filed by X-Cell Biotech, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The U.S. patent application describes a method to produce large numbers of substantially pure populations of two types of immune cells known as CD4 and CD8 T cells from a small sample of blood. The sequential expansion of both CD4 and CD8 T cells in the same culture offers the unique potential to modulate or control the immune response under laboratory conditions. No expensive cell selection step is required.

Alun Davies, Hemosol, said the technology has...

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