All posts by: Michael Zand

US clears breakthrough gene therapy for childhood leukemia
Q13 FOX
“This is a brand new way of treating cancer,” said Dr. Stephan Grupp of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, who treated the first child with CAR–T cell therapy — a girl who’d been near death but now is cancer-free for five years and counting. “That’s …

FDA approves gene therapy that could fight type of leukemia
KMSP-TV
Erica and Adam Gifford are thrilled the Food and Drug Administration announced approval of the first gene therapy in the United States. Car t-cell gene therapy can be used for Charlotte’s type of leukemia, affecting anyone under 25 years old. “It’s a …

The Genome Revolution: Inside UC Berkeley’s CRISPR labs
Daily Californian
CRISPR-Cas9 is the shorthand for a new technology that edits genes at an unprecedented speed and scale. It stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats with associated protein 9. And it’s on track to be one of the most important …

Experts explain the ‘CRISPR‘ practice: A controversial gene editing technology
The Daily Orange
CRISPR, or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats technology, could eventually be used to eradicate serious genetic diseases in humans, but it also raises ethical questions and concerns, some people fearing the method might be used …

FDA cracks down on stem cell treatments, including one administered at Rancho Mirage clinic
The Desert Sun
On Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration signaled a crackdown on some stem cell treatments which could have repercussions for a local medical facility. The FDA announced this week it had sent members of the U.S. Marshals Service to a …
FDA cracks down on stem cell clinics | WPMT FOX43FOX43.com
FDA announces action against two stem cell clinics: Is that a ‘crackdown’?HealthNewsReview.org
FDA warns US Stem Cell Clinic in Sunrise, Florida, of significant deviationsFlorida Trend
JD Supra (press release) –Newsmax
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FDA approves the first immunotherapy drug for childhood leukemia
KING5.com
“The Food and Drug Administration has just approved for the first time a living therapy and immunotherapy that we can use to treat cancer. That is unprecedented, it’s never happened before,” said Dr. Damian Green, a clinical researcher at Fred …
FDA approval brings first gene therapy to the United StatesFDA.gov
Landmark FDA approval clears the way for gene therapy treatments that fight cancerGeekWire
LLS Investment Pays Off: FDA Approves Revolutionary Immunotherapy for Blood Cancer PatientsPR Newswire (press release)
Business Insider –Reuters –GenomeWeb
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Chicago hospitals gearing up to offer breakthrough treatment for pediatric cancer
Chicago Tribune
Here’s how the CAR–T cell therapy works: Immune cells called T-cells are collected from a patient’s blood and genetically engineered to fight the leukemia. Those supercharged T-cells are then put back into the patient’s body, where they kill the cancer …