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Cure claim for SCID gene therapy
Thursday April 18th, 2019
Gene therapy developed for babes with severe combined immunodeficiency may have successfully "cured" all of those who received treatment, doctors claimed last night.
Eight
infants now have fully functioning immune systems and are living normal
lives, US researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Not one of the children has developed a life-threatening infection since the treatment and normal numbers of multiple types of immune cell developed
Abandoned diabetes drug shows lymphoma promise
Thursday April 18th, 2019
A drug abandoned as a treatment for diabetes may protect against the development of T-cell lymphoma, Scottish researchers have reported.
The Dundee University research at first centred on metformin – but then switched to phenformin. More
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