New research has identified a novel immunotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia. The study, published in Nature Cancer, describes a T-cell receptor that recognizes a mutation shared between a subgroup of patients with the disease. ...
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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), the second most common leukemia in children, is hard to treat and has a five-year survival rate of just 65 to 70%, according to the American Cancer Society. While immunotherapies like monoclonal ...
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A new study is strengthening the evidence that stem cell transplants can be highly effective for some people with multiple sclerosis—sending the disease into remission for years, and sometimes reversing disability.
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A biobank for all, in which a person from any background could find a bone marrow donor for a stem cell transplant, is a major goal for stem cell science. While repositories of cell lines that could be a match for most patients ...
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Stanford Medicine researchers are hopeful that a proof-of-concept treatment in mice—blood stem cell transplants—may reduce signs of Alzheimer's disease.
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The pain from a heart attack is so bad that—if you can imagine—it can feel like an elephant sitting on you. Patients with sickle cell disease, a genetic condition affecting the red blood cells, report that this kind of ...
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In a paper, "Epitope editing enables targeted immunotherapy of acute myeloid leukaemia," published in Nature, researchers at the Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, introduce a genetic ...
A type of gene therapy that precisely "edits" a key bit of DNA might offer a new way to treat sickle cell disease—a painful inherited condition that largely strikes Black children and adults.
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Researchers have successfully transplanted human microglia cells into mouse retina to create a model that could be used to test new treatments for incurable eye diseases.
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A new method to assess the status of immune responses to specific antigens in detail by analysis using the B cell receptor (BCR) repertoire has been developed by a research group, consisting of Assistant Professor Yohei Funakoshi, ...
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