Doctors Claim They’ve Cured a Boy of a Painful Blood Disorder Using Gene Therapy – Futurism
Futurism |
Doctors Claim They’ve Cured a Boy of a Painful Blood Disorder Using Gene Therapy
Futurism A teenage boy in France with sickle cell disease is considered cured after receiving a novel type of gene therapy. Gene therapy is also being considered to treat blindness, Parkinson’s, and even prolonging human life. |
WIRED |
MIT’s Crispr Guy Braves Enemy Territory at UC Berkeley
WIRED UC Berkeley undergraduate Megha Majumder was fired up. Just a few weeks after Feng Zhang, MIT, and the Broad Institute won the interference proceeding over Crispr/Cas9 patents against UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna, solidifying Zhang’s patent claims … |
IFLScience |
Game-Changing Gene Therapy Nullifies Patient’s Sickle Cell Disease
IFLScience Gene-editing recently saved the lives of two baby girls who had an incurable form of leukemia. Now, the same type of process has been used to cancel out all the symptoms of a French teenager’s sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease is one that mainly … Teenager’s sickle cell reversed with world-first therapyBBC News Gene therapy product shows early promise in sickle cell diseaseHealio Innovative gene therapy allows complete remission of clinical signs of sickle cell diseaseNews-Medical.net Yahoo News –Next Big Future –Doctors Lounge all 12 news articles » |
6abc.com |
New gene therapy turns blood cells into cancer fighters
6abc.com An experimental gene therapy that turns a patient’s own blood cells into cancer killers worked in a major study, with more than one-third of very sick lymphoma patients showing no sign of disease six months after a single treatment, its maker said Tuesday. A New Cancer Treatment Has Given Terminal Patients a Second Chance at LifeFuturism Gene therapy to fight a blood cancer succeeds in major studyNews Talk Florida Study: Gene therapy to fight blood cancer succeedsThe News Herald WND.com –domain-B all 15 news articles » |
STAT |
Two adversaries in the CRISPR patent battle meet — and look ahead
STAT Two of the leading adversaries in the battle to own CRISPR, the powerful gene-editing tool, took the stage together at a genetic medicine conference here, and they couldn’t have been more polite — or more forward-looking. This is a STAT Plus article … |