<br /><br />Bioengineeers at the Washington State University have developed a relatively compact machine for rapidly growing the T killer cells employed by many immunotherapeutic regimens to destroy cancer cells. Their system utilizes centrifugal flow techniques to accelerate immune cell propagation to a speed 30% faster than most current techniques. Since one popular and effective cancer immuotherapy, the CAR-T strategy used for treating leukemias, requires as many as 250 million modified T-cells for each infusion, rapid amplification of T cell numbers is mandatory. The researchers are hard at work modifying this initial bioreactor in order to produce greater numbers of cells even faster. Patents are pending to facilitate commercialization.<br /><br />https://aiche.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/btpr.3388<br /><br />#bioreactor #centrifugalflow #tcells #immunotherapy #cart #leukemia<br /><br />
