In ALS, the immune system turns on the body it's meant to protect. SELtx™ uses your own blood to switch chronic inflammatory cells back into healers — in one 30-minute closed loop.
Think of it as a switch with two settings. In healthy tissue it stays balanced. In ALS it gets stuck on "attack" — and the ratio between the two states tracks how fast the disease moves.
Chronically activated M1 macrophages drive inflammation and attack motor neurons. The longer they dominate, the faster ALS progresses.
M2 macrophages calm inflammation and support repair. Shift the balance back toward M2 and you change the disease's trajectory.
SELtx™ is a cell-based platform — not a stem-cell therapy. Your blood never leaves a sterile, closed circuit.
~300 mL of blood — less than a standard donation — in a routine clinical setting.
Controlled hyperoxia and mechanotransduction trigger apoptosis — creating signaling "apoptogenics."
Those signals drive efferocytosis — flipping M1 "killer" cells into M2 "healer" cells.
The treated blood returns. The immune system stops attacking and starts repairing.
Nothing synthetic is introduced. The therapy works with your own cells and their natural signals.
A cell-based platform that needs no stem cells, donor material, or genetic modification.
It resets the balance rather than broadly suppressing it — avoiding the toxicity of shutting immunity off.
In transgenic SOD1 ALS models, SELtx™ produced a validated M1-to-M2 shift — tracked with established immune biomarkers — alongside preserved motor function. The work was conducted with the Indiana University School of Medicine.
The reactor and method behind SELtx™ are protected by granted patents and active filings across major markets.
U.S. Patent No. 1171579 — A controlled, precise gas–fluid contact reactor that reacts hyperoxia with whole blood, together with mechanotransduction, to induce apoptotic cells — "apoptogenics."
Japan Patent No. 75297259 — The core SELtx™ method, protected in Japan — extending global coverage of the apoptogenic reactor and process.
U.S. Patent No. 7,736,494 B2 — Precision control of oxidative stress for accurate dosing and regulation of cellular apoptogenesis.
PCT/US2010/001785 — A hyperoxia delivery system for a measured reaction with a given biological fluid.
PCT/US2017/047690 — Filed across China, India, Canada, and Australia — widening protection of the platform’s reactor and method.