cell-therapy
3 stories tagged "cell-therapy"
Cancer
The Company Behind the CRISPR Leukemia Breakthrough Shut Itself Down a Year Before the Paper Ran
Thirty patients with aggressive blood cancers got a CRISPR-edited transplant that worked as designed. Vor Biopharma, the company that built it, had already laid off 95 percent of its staff and left the program behind.
CancerUCLA Can Grow Thousands of Cancer-Fighting Cell Doses in Six Weeks. Every Patient So Far Has Been a Mouse.
The lab put a $5,000-a-dose price on an off-the-shelf cancer therapy grown from cord blood that controlled tumors in mice with ovarian cancer and melanoma. No human has received it.
CancerNo Gene Editing, No Catheter Into the Skull: A Pediatric Brain-Cancer T-Cell Trial Reported One Complete Response in 33 Young Patients
Children with diffuse pontine glioma rarely live past a year. A first-in-human trial infused 33 young patients with pediatric brain tumors, including DIPG, with T cells trained on three tumor proteins, no genetic engineering, and reported one complete response and three survivors still alive years l