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Brit scientists testing ‘groundbreaking’ therapy that could cure common cause of blindness – The Sun

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2017-03-19 NEWS

The Sun

Brit scientists testing ‘groundbreaking’ therapy that could cure common cause of blindness
The Sun
Last Thursday a 29-year-old man with XLRP became the first patient to undergo the gene therapy procedure at Oxford Eye Hospital. A virus carries corrective DNA into cells at the back of the eye. For the treatment to work scientists have to reprogramme

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2017-03-19 NEWS

Huffington Post UK

Sexuality Prevents Me From Donating Blood, But Not Stem Cells
Huffington Post UK
As Michael Fabricant MP and others helped the gay blood ban become an issue of public interest again in 2014, I looked again at stem cell donation and the Anthony Nolan register. I signed straight up, sent back my ‘spit sample’, and that was that.

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2017-03-19 NEWS

OncLive

DLBCL: CART as Curative Treatment/Bridge to Transplant
OncLive
Now, those relapses have sometimes been responsive to a second CAR T-cell infusion. At times, they’ve been limited in disease, even in patients who have bulky disease and we could get them to a CR, or near a CR, and then have taken these patients to …