GeekWireWhy immunotherapy is revolutionizing cancer treatmentTribune-ReviewThe Food and Drug Administration approved the first cancer immunotherapy drug, ipilimumab, in 2011. There are two main types of cancer immunotherapy treatments: checkpoint modul… Continue reading
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Can gene therapy be harnessed to fight the AIDS virus?
News-Herald.com Matt Chappell, right, is checked by Dr. Christopher Schiessl during an appointment at a medical center in San Francisco. For more than a decade, the strongest AIDS drugs could not fully control Chappell’s HIV infection. Now his body does it by itself … |
Indiana Gazette |
Second man undergoes gene therapy; no safety flags so far
Indiana Gazette Brian Madeux, started to receive the first human gene editing therapy in November for Hunter syndrome, as his girlfriend Marcie Humphrey, left, applauded at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, Calif. At right is nurse practitioner Jacqueline … |
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Alzheimer’s Researcher Pushes Forward With Immunotherapy Trials Despite Setbacks In The Field
WBUR For two decades, scientists have been studying how immunotherapies may help treat Alzheimer’s disease. The theory is that antibodies might trigger the brain to destroy a kind of protein that clumps in the brain of patients. The clumps are known as beta … |