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UCSF Scientists Build a Molecular ‘GPS’ to Guide Cell Therapies

UCSF scientists have been awarded more than $30 million to develop “tissue GPS,” a new system using engineered T cells to guide therapies directly to their targets in the brain to treat neurological diseases like cancer, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s.

A scientific image of T-cells attacking a glioblastoma (brain tumor).

Targeted Treatment of Rare Childhood Leukemia

Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) is a rare but aggressive childhood leukemia. While hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is curative for some patients, approximately half of all patients see

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