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Promising gene therapy treatment for blindness – Lab News

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2017-12-07 NEWS

Lab News

Promising gene therapy treatment for blindness
Lab News
Most causes of untreatable blindness occur from the loss of millions of light sensitive photoreceptor cells that line the retina. Even after a patient’s eyesight has been lost, the remaining cells that are not light-sensitive are still intact

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Journalism Day

Stem cells ‘will enable us to live to 200’
The Scotsman
Stem cells will enable people to live to an average of 200 years, a Nottingham-based stem cell bank has claimed. It pointed to trials in the United States where frail elderly patients had seen their breathing and movement improve with an infusion of
Global Stem Cell Media Market 2017- Lonza, Merck Millipore, Miltenyi Biotec and GE HealthcareJournalism Day

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2017-12-07 NEWS

Wall Street Journal

Roche’s Immunotherapy Drug Tecentriq Extended Patients’ Lives in Study
Wall Street Journal
Roche Holding AG RHHBY 1.26% said Thursday that its immunotherapy drug Tecentriq slowed the progression of lung cancer and helped patients live longer in a late-stage study, offering a new hope for patients and bolstering the Swiss drugmaker’s defense

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Ovarian cancer could be next application for CAR T-cell therapy
ModernMedicine
While CAR T-cell therapy has been proven to work for liquid—or blood—cancers, the challenge has been to apply this technology to solid tumors. That’s why Amit Kumar, PhD, president and CEO at ITUS Corporation, a San Jose, California-based cancer