Axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel), a form of CAR-T therapy appears to be safe and has encouraging signs of efficacy in treating both lymphoma of the brain and spinal cord injury.
CAR-T, a therapy generally used in the treatment of cancer, has been shown to eliminate unhealthy cells that trigger autoimmunity in mouse models of multiple-sclerosis.
A fatal brain stem tumor was cleared by injecting it with engineered T-cells that recognized cancer and targeted it for destruction in mouse models, researchers report.