Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer

[DonR]

With so much gloom in the world (i.e. on the news) it's nice to stumble across something uplifting

Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer

New way of altering DNA is used to engineer an "exciting", experimental therapy for a 13-year-old girl.

www.bbc.com

 

[charleski]

What’s really interesting is that the team behind this is working on a way to make to make this therapy a lot cheaper using pre-manufactured cell lines.

Genome-edited allogeneic donor “universal” chimeric antigen receptor T cells

Complex patient-specific manufacturing and variable potency due to poor T-cell fitness limit advances in autologous chimeric antigen receptor T therapies a

ashpublications.org

 

[napfkuchen]

Don't you also get overwhelmed with daily news as they are negative for the most part giving the impression we are doomed anyway? ... So thanks for lighting up the day!
I sometimes have to remember the motto of my favourite youtube-tech-channel: "What a time to be alive!"