Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are improving chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy. Their new simplified approach selected for an advantageous T-cell type and showed promise in the lab against ...
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A research team led by Prof. Dr. Tamam Bakchoul from the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Transfusion Medicine (IKET) at the University Hospital of Tübingen is investigating the suitability of anticoagulants in patients ...
Jun 23, 2022
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Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common cancer affecting children. The T-ALL form of leukemia that emerges from early T lineage cells has a poorer prognosis than B-lineage ALL. The prognosis for relapsed T-ALL ...
Jun 20, 2022
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A group of researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), in collaboration with Beam Therapeutics, have tested and developed an "off-the-shelf" chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CART) using base editing, which ...
May 23, 2022
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WEHI researchers have uncovered a new way to help identify babies and fetuses at high-risk of developing brain bleeds, paving the way for better early intervention.
May 2, 2022
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People with sickle cell disease (SCD) who were recently prescribed a corticosteroid—a medicine frequently used to treat asthma or inflammation—were found to be significantly more likely to be hospitalized for a severe ...
Apr 26, 2022
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Scientists have shown in an animal model that the CXCL12 messenger could be suitable as a target structure for the treatment of blood-clotting disorders.
Apr 21, 2022
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For severely immunocompromised patients, a bone marrow transplant restores immune defenses and allows them to resume normal life. But after observing the nasopharyngeal system, where the body's first line of immune defense ...
Apr 4, 2022
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Zinc's immune-boosting properties are well-established, but we're still untangling how it works. In a new study published in late March in the scientific journal Blood, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center scientists reveal ...
Mar 31, 2022
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A new study from researchers at the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and Houston Methodist Hospital shows that cancer patients who receive treatment with genetically ...
Mar 30, 2022
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