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Just 100 days after his 6-year-old brother donated stem cells to save him from bone marrow cancer, 13-year-old Brody House stepped back onto the pitcher's mound in Tampa. He's now cancer free and playing in the All-Star Championship Series with the same friends who supported him through it all.
A new stem cell transplant developed at Johns Hopkins has cured sickle cell disease in 95% of patients, using half-matched donors like parents or siblings. The breakthrough means nearly every sickle cell patient can now access a cure that also preserves fertility.
A 63-year-old Norwegian man became just the tenth person worldwide to achieve long-term HIV remission after a stem cell transplant from his brother. The procedure worked because his sibling carried a rare genetic mutation that blocks the virus from entering cells.
A 63-year-old Norwegian man appears completely cured of HIV after receiving stem cells from his brother during cancer treatment. The brother unknowingly carried a rare genetic mutation that grants natural resistance to the virus.
A 63-year-old Norwegian man has become only the tenth person ever functionally cured of HIV, thanks to a stem cell transplant from his brother who carried a rare genetic mutation. After five years off medication, doctors found zero traces of functioning HIV in his body.
A 63-year-old Norwegian man has been living without HIV medication for three years after receiving stem cells from his brother who carried a rare genetic mutation. His case offers crucial clues for researchers working toward an HIV cure.
A breakthrough combination therapy is giving aggressive leukemia patients new hope, nearly doubling remission rates and opening the door to life-saving transplants. The treatment developed in Germany could soon become the new standard of care.
After two cancer relapses, a heart attack, and having to relearn how to walk, supermarket manager Sheldon Donovan transformed his life by losing half his body weight and becoming a runner. Now he's opening a new Cancer Research UK store to help others get their own second chances.
Brady Engel crossed a 5K finish line just 30 days after a stem cell transplant for his second fight with lymphoma. The Miami Dolphins employee turned his team's motto into a personal rally cry.
Miami Dolphins employee Brady Engel will bike 39 miles at the Dolphins Cancer Challenge just weeks after scans showed he's cancer-free from his second battle with B-Cell Lymphoma. Last year, he walked a 5K just one month after a stem cell transplant.
Children with sickle cell disease now have a survival rate exceeding 95% thanks to breakthrough stem cell transplant techniques. New treatments are also opening curative options for kids who previously had no donor matches.