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NotSanguine writes "A year ago, when chemotherapy stopped working against his leukemia, William Ludwig signed up to be the first patient treated in a bold experiment at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Ludwig, then 65, a retired corrections officer from Bridgeton, N.J., felt his life draining away and thought he had nothing to lose.
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Tiny magnetic beads force the larger T-cells to divide before they are infused into the patient.
Doctors removed a billion of his T-cells — a type of white blood cell that fights viruses and tumors — and gave them new genes that would program the cells to attack his cancer. Then the altered cells were dripped back into Mr. Ludwig’s veins."
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Multimedia
Graphic
Gene Therapy
Attacking a Tumor
Enlarge This Image
University of Pennsylvania
Tiny magnetic beads force the larger T-cells to divide before they are infused into the patient.
Doctors removed a billion of his T-cells — a type of white blood cell that fights viruses and tumors — and gave them new genes that would program the cells to attack his cancer. Then the altered cells were dripped back into Mr. Ludwig’s veins."
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