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Researchers used one injection to reprogram immune cells inside the body, easing multiple sclerosis symptoms for at least six months. The breakthrough could make lifesaving therapy faster, cheaper, and available to millions more patients.
Sutter Health enrolled its first patient in a groundbreaking cancer trial that could stop lymphoma from returning before it's even visible on scans. The treatment brings cutting-edge cellular therapy to the East Bay, eliminating the need for patients to travel to distant medical centers.
China just approved the first CAR T-cell therapy ever designed to treat solid tumors, offering new hope to advanced gastric cancer patients who've run out of options. This breakthrough could reshape how doctors treat stomach, pancreatic, and other difficult cancers.
Three kidney failure patients who spent years without a transplant match finally received new kidneys after doctors used a cancer therapy to reset their immune systems. The breakthrough could help thousands of highly sensitized patients who develop antibodies that reject most donor organs.
Two patients who spent years waiting for kidney transplants with nearly zero chance of finding a match just received new organs thanks to cancer-fighting cells repurposed for transplant medicine. The breakthrough could help 5,000 highly sensitized Americans waiting for kidneys.
A treatment originally designed to fight cancer is now helping people with autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and lupus reclaim their lives. Early trials show patients walking without assistance and living medication-free months after a single treatment.
Nine patients with aggressive cancers are responding to a groundbreaking cell therapy that works like an on-off switch, avoiding the exhaustion problem that has limited cancer treatments. The therapy showed zero serious side effects and actual tumor shrinkage in patients who had already tried four other treatments.
A breakthrough immune therapy is transforming multiple myeloma from a disease that always returned into one where patients can reach long-term remission. More than 36,000 Americans diagnosed this year now have access to treatments once considered impossible.
Chinese scientists created a simple add-on that makes failing cancer treatments work again, without expensive genetic engineering. Patients who relapsed after CAR T therapy could now get a second chance at survival.
Scientists discovered that a natural molecule produced during fasting dramatically improves CAR T cell therapy against cancer in mice. Human trials are already underway to test whether this affordable supplement could help patients beat cancers that normally resist treatment.
Scientists created super-sensitive immune cells that completely eliminated kidney, ovarian, and pancreatic tumors in mice by detecting cancer cells previous treatments missed. The breakthrough could work against nearly two dozen different solid cancers.
Researchers at Mount Sinai created a therapy that doesn't attack cancer cells directly. Instead, it flips the immune cells protecting tumors, transforming defenders into destroyers.