Chimeric Antigen Receptor T (CAR-T) cellular therapies allow a patient’s T-cells to be genetically modified to display receptors for tumor cell proteins, leading to binding and destruction. This therapy has come a long way since its inception in the late 1980s by immunologist Zelig Eshharat the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. In 2017 the […]

In the US, more than 6 million people are living with Alzheimer’s disease, and that number is expected to more than double by 2050. Sara Salezberg was just 55 when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2015. “Something just happened to my brain like… I had no clue it was even. You know?” The […]

Patients with severe COVID-19 dealing with respiratory failure can have extended hospital stays and experience higher mortality rates. As such, an urgent need to aid these patients in respiratory failure is a priority in COVID-19 clinical care. COVID-19-related respiratory failure is caused by selective infection of the alveolar type II cell (ATII) by the SARS-CoV-2 […]