1. CAR-T Therapy's Lupus Breakthrough: Five Years Later, Autoimmunity Research Is Still Being Rewritten
Five years ago, a single, desperate case in Germany shattered a core assumption in immunology. Georg Schett, a physician-scientist, faced a young lupus patient near death and a radical idea: using engineered CAR-T cells, a cancer therapy, to treat an autoimmune disease. The prevailing fear was that these powerful T cel...