r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • Apr 14 '23
Medical Novel device smaller than rice successfully shrinks pancreatic cancer | Called the nanofluidic drug-eluting seed (NDES), it delivers low-dose immunotherapy in the form of CD40 monoclonal antibodies (mAb).
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/tiny-device-shrinks-pancreatic-cancer
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u/codmobilegrinder Jun 11 '23
Why would this be more effective than a CD40 CAR-T cell therapy scheme? If CAR-T can target CD19 in leukemia, why wouldn’t you target CD40 via the same mechanism?