Financial TimesImmunotherapy: beyond melanoma and lung cancer treatmentFinancial TimesIn the late 1800s, William Coley, a surgeon in New York, developed what scientists now think was the first cancer immunotherapy. Coley noticed one of his patients, Fr… Continue reading
Financial Times |
Crispr gene editing ready for testing in humans
Financial Times Ever since scientists began decoding the human genome in 1990, doctors have dreamt of a new era of medicine where illness could be treated — or even cured — by fxing flaws in a person’s DNA. Rather than using medicine to fight disease, they would be … Growth Insights on the Global CRISPR/Cas9 Tools Market, 2017 – Biotechnology, Genomics, Healthcare IndustriesMilTech |
Daily Mail |
British boy, 7, with cerebral palsy will fly to the US to be injected with stem cells taken from his younger brother …
Daily Mail Hope of reversing Jay’s symptoms seemed forlorn – until she got pregnant and gave birth to her second son, Kairus, two-and-half-years ago – Mrs Shetty said: ‘We were researching stem cell therapies on the internet – and she learnt that researchers in … Blood from umbilical cord used to treat cerebral palsyThe Times |
PBS NewsHour |
Gene therapy was a boy’s last chance to stop leukemia. And it worked.
PBS NewsHour Last August, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the treatment — the first accepted gene therapy in the nation — based on the success of clinical trials like Shaun’s. But Shaun’s family didn’t know if this day would ever come. Six … |
PBS NewsHour |
Gene therapy was a boy’s last chance to stop leukemia. And it worked.
PBS NewsHour Last August, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the treatment — the first accepted gene therapy in the nation — based on the success of clinical trials like Shaun’s. But Shaun’s family didn’t know if this day would ever come. Six … |