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The 5 Most Wondrous Medical Breakthroughs This Year – Daily Beast

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2017-12-27 NEWS

Daily Beast

The 5 Most Wondrous Medical Breakthroughs This Year
Daily Beast
The chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell could augment the first line of defense of a cell’s immune response to an invader, whether that be cancer or the flu. Researchers are working on genetically re-engineering these T-cells with the CAR molecule

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2017-12-26 NEWS

American Council on Science and Health

One More Gene Therapy Approved Before Year’s End
American Council on Science and Health
One more gene therapy squeaked in before year’s end, not for cancer treatment, but an inherited form of vision loss that can lead to blindness called biallelic RPE65 mutation-associated retinal dystrophy. The treatment is called Luxturna (voretigene