Summary
The medicine was made in India, so it can help more people. 🇮🇳
It works by teaching the body’s own cells to find and destroy bad cells. 🔍
Key Points
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A soldier with blood cancer received a new Indian‑made cell therapy.
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The therapy trains the patient’s own immune cells to attack cancer.
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It costs much less than similar treatments from other countries.
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Scientists from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Tata Memorial Centre and ImmunoACT created it.
New Words to Learn
6 wordsblood cancer
a sickness where blood cells become unhealthy
cell therapy
treatment that uses living cells to fight disease
immune cells
the body’s defenders that fight germs
genetically
changing the instructions inside a cell
affordable
not too expensive
leukemia
a type of blood cancer that makes white blood cells grow too fast
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