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Girl, 6, ‘happy and thriving’ after new gene-therapy destroyed her leukaemia – Express.co.uk

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2017-03-31 NEWS

Express.co.uk

Girl, 6, ‘happy and thriving’ after new genetherapy destroyed her leukaemia
Express.co.uk
Experimental AR (Chimaeric Antigen Receptor) T-Cell therapy re-engineers white blood cells to attack and kill cancer cells when injected back into the patient’s body. Now oday Erin’s doting parents Sarah and Antony Cross have revealed it totally “wiped
Cancer trial saves schoolgirl pal of Ant & Dec as therapy wipes out leukaemiaMirror.co.uk

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Houston Chronicle

Stem cells could hold key to treating brain injuries
Houston Chronicle
In collaboration with Dr. Charles Cox, co-director of Memorial Hermann Red Duke Trauma Institute and lead investigator on UTHealth’s traumatic brain injury stem cell trial, the team has found that using a patient’s own stem cells appears to dampen the

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2017-03-31 NEWS

Capital Press

Outreach key to improving Monsanto’s image, official says
Capital Press
The company recently entered into an agreement with the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University to use so-called CRISPR Cpf1 technology, which allows researchers to edit genomes at precise locations