Family of nurse with rare disease searching for stem cell donors – Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg Free Press |
Family of nurse with rare disease searching for stem cell donors
Winnipeg Free Press Sheila Wolfe is a nurse with leukemia who’s in desperate need of a stem cell transplant. Her family is organizing a stem cell registry drive at Victoria Hospital Thursday. A Winnipeg nurse who has saved lives for the last 25 years now needs the public … |
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Man battling MS feels stem–cell treatment is best chance at a better life
WWBT NBC12 News A Chesterfield man is in the fight of his life as multiple sclerosis attacks his body and brain. Michael Scott says current treatments don’t seem to help his symptoms and family and friends believe Scott’s best chance at a better life, is a new stem … |
Popular Mechanics |
Most People May Already Be Immune to CRISPR
Popular Mechanics The gene-editing technology CRISPR has the potential to change everything about medicine. With CRISPR, scientists and doctors can potentially edit a person’s genome on the fly, fixing all manner of genetic diseases with a simple, non-invasive procedure … Microsoft Wants to Use Artificial Intelligence to Make CRISPR More AccurateGizmodo Microsoft AI is being used to improve CRISPR accuracyYahoo Finance UK |
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Rare melanoma type highly responsive to immunotherapy
EurekAlert (press release) However, based on anecdotal reports of favorable responses, a group of researchers including Moffitt’s Zeynep Eroglu, M.D., Jane Messina, M.D., and Dae Won Kim, M.D., hypothesized that patients with desmoplastic melanoma may be more responsive to anti … Immunotherapy Highly Effective in Treatment of Rare Skin Cancer, Study FindsNewswise (press release) |
OncLive |
Considerations for Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation
OncLive I’m kind of a minimalist from the standpoint of, if patients are doing well and are in remission, we’ve moved away from scans in a lot of situations in large cell lymphoma. Once you have a negative PET scan and end treatment, I think there’s an … |