Two Babies Have Been Cancer-Free After Receiving Treatment Created With Gene Editing – Futurism
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Two Babies Have Been Cancer-Free After Receiving Treatment Created With Gene Editing
Futurism The team combined a novel but promising cell therapy called chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR T) with a gene-editing technique called TALENS. The former uses the patient’s immune system to fight cancer, while the latter is a gene editing tool that … |
WhaTech |
‘Nano-in-micro’ stem cell delivery could rescue blood flow after injury
Science Daily Stem cells are promising treatments, but they do not tend to stay at the site or survive long enough to heal the damage. Today, researchers combine micro and nano approaches to improve stem cell therapies and outcomes after ischemia, or inadequate … Report explores the global mesenchymal stem cells marketWhaTech |
Los Angeles Times |
CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna struggles with the ethical implications of what she has wrought
Los Angeles Times Those two sides of CRISPR are the subject of Doudna’s new book “A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution.” Co-written with her former student Samuel H. Sternberg and published last month, “A Crack in Creation” … CRISPR Structure Data Reveal How Cas Enzymes Choose TargetGenetic Engineering & Biotechnology News This Week in ScienceGenomeWeb |
MedCity News |
Can the immunotherapy movement march into glioblastomas?
MedCity News On Wednesday, Mayo Clinic released a statement revealing that longstanding Republican Senator John McCain has an aggressive form of brain cancer. Called glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), it’s responsible for around 15 percent of the 79,000 brain cancers … |
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Cancer Patients’ Gray Hair Mysteriously Turns Youthfully Dark on New Immunotherapy Drugs
NBC New York This undated combination of photos provided by the Journal of the American Medical Association in July 2017 shows a cancer patient with gray hair that unexpectedly turned dark while taking new immunotherapy drugs. Fourteen such cases were among 52 … Cancer patients’ grey hair unexpectedly darkens in drug studyThe Guardian |
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Stem Cell Transplants Work for Many Myeloma Patients Who Fail to Respond to First-line Therapies, Study Finds
Myeloma Research News Stem cell transplants derived from patients’ own bone marrow are a safe and effective treatment for those with multiple myeloma who fail to respond to first-line treatments, a study reports. Scientists call transplants using patients’ own cells … Race, ethnicity impact use of autologous stem cell transplantation for multiple myelomaHealio |