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A mouse study at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has found that adding Nef, a protein from HIV, allows donor CAR T cells to avoid detection by the immune system while still attacking tumors.

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A new advance may make it possible to use off-the-shelf CAR T cells provided by healthy donors. The new approach studied in mice equipped CAR T cells with the viral protein Nef.