Researchers engineered a patient's own immune cells to treat a type of blood cancer called chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL. And, as Dr. Jon LaPook reports, the results of this new form of treatment have researchers "happily surprised."
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In a small study, scientists succeed in reengineering a patient's own T-cells to attack cancer cells
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Martin Kaymer thought the finishing stretch at the PGA Championship last year was among the toughest he had ever seen.
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By George Wigmore of Nature magazine The sequencing of the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) genome has revealed an immune system never seen before in jawed vertebrates. [More]
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Read More »Breakthrough multiple sclerosis DNA study could lead to new treatments
Scientists up number of identified MS genes to 57, link them to other immune diseases like Chron's, Type 1 diabetes
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Scientists report breakthrough success with gene therapy to treat cancer
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Marijuana's been linked to all sorts of health problems, but that doesn't stop adolescents from lighting up
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