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The Biggest Cancer News Of 2017? ‘CAR-T Cells, Hands Down’ – WBUR

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2017-12-28 NEWS

WBUR

The Biggest Cancer News Of 2017? ‘CART Cells, Hands Down’
WBUR
“That would have to be CART cells, hands down,” replied Mara Bloom, director of the cancer center at Massachusetts General Hospital. “This is a breakthrough therapy and patients — all of us here at Mass. General — are really excited about it

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2017-12-27 NEWS

Human CRISPR Trials Will Happen in 2018. They’ll Look Like This.
Big Think (blog)
“Every new and hot biomedical technology usually undergoes an inflated expectations phase,” Alexey Bersenev, director of the Advanced Cell Therapy Lab at Yale-New Haven Hospital tells MIT Technology Review. When CRISPR-Cas9 was first introduced in 2014

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2017-12-27 NEWS

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An Introduction to Cancer Immunotherapy Treatments
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Of all the things that your doctor could tell you that might be a cause for alarm, hearing that you have late-stage cancer is probably one of the worst. We’ve all heard people talk about a “cure for cancer” when in fact there is no one single cure