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  "id": 3816126,
  "title": "Researchers develop scalable method to generate key immune cells for cancer therapy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/researchers-develop-scalable-method-to-generate-key-immune-cells-for",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-27T21:00:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-scalable-method-generate-key-immune.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Researchers at the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) in Boston have created a method to efficiently produce CD4+ helper T cells from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). This breakthrough could lead to widely available, off-the-shelf CAR-T cell therapies for treating various types of cancer. Currently, each patient's CAR-T therapy is costly and time-consuming due to the need for personalized production. iPSCs, derived from adult skin or blood cells, could revolutionize the process by enabling large-scale, ready-to-use T cell production. The challenge has been generating functional CD4+ helper T cells through a key molecular signaling pathway called Notch. Researchers discovered that by removing Notch signaling during later T cell maturation stages while simultaneously reducing anti-T cell receptor signaling, they could successfully produce CD4+ T cells in large quantities. The team's protocol is simple, efficient, and scalable, paving the way for more accessible and affordable cancer treatments.",
  "summary": "Researchers at the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University (BU) have developed a scalable method for generating CD4+ helper T cells from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), overcoming a longstanding challenge in the development of stem cell-based immunotherapies. The findings, published in Stem Cell Reports, could help advance efforts to…",
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        "outlet": "ABC News AU",
        "title": "Most people don't survive brain cancer. Researchers hope to change that",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/most-people-dont-survive-brain-cancer-researchers-hope-to-change-that",
        "published": "2026-08-26T20:06:36.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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