gene therapy for cancer

gene therapy for cancer

T cells are genetically modified using a harmless virus.
© Illustration: Science Photo Library/Elam Gunilla, Montage: bdw; Keystone-SDA/AP Photo/The children’s hospital of Philadelphia/Ed Cunicelli Graphic: Cancer Information Service, German Cancer Research Center

With tailor-made defense cells, blood cancer and possibly other types of cancer can be combated in the future.

by Gerlinde Felix

Emily Whitehead was lucky in misfortune: she was one of the 5 in 100,000 children under the age of six who develop acute lymphocytic leukemia every year. And you

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