Tinka and the B-cells
A children's book about CAR T-cell therapy
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Beschreibung
Tinka becomes a member of a special task force of the body police: the CAR T-cells.
Equipped with super-receptors, they can liberate sick Jessica from blood cancer.
This book, told from the perspective of Tinka the T-cell, explains CAR-T cell therapy in a way that children can understand.
The young T-cell Tinka learns everything she needs to know for her future role as a member of the body police in the thymus-school. After finishing school, however, she is disappointed and frustrated to discover that she and her siblings are powerless against the terror of the B-cells. She suspects that they could be cancer cells. But why is there no way for the T-cells to fight them? One day, Tinka and her siblings are kidnapped from the blood and transformed into CAR T-cells through an adventurous process. Back in the blood, thanks to this transformation, they are suddenly able to fight the B cells and thus liberate the body of this disease.
Autor*in
Nina Graffmann
Nina Graffmann wurde 1983 in Düsseldorf geboren und arbeitet seit 2007 als Stammzellforscherin im Bereich der Grundlagenforschung. Die zahlrei-chen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von Stammzellen und die damit zusam-menhängenden neuartigen Therapien faszinieren sie und sie möchte diese gerne einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich machen.
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