A one-time gene therapy using a patient’s own stem cells has effectively cured a deadly immune disorder in 95% of treated children, offering a lasting, donor-free solution to ADA-SCID, known as the ...
Findings from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital demonstrate that virtual memory T cells, a specialized group of immune cells, provide nonspecific immunity for infants early in life. Subscribe to ...
Overall and event-free survival of 100 and 95%, respectively, seen with autologous CD34+ hematopoietic stem-cell lentiviral gene therapy. HealthDay News — Autologous CD34+ hematopoietic stem-cell ...
Gene therapy is superior to haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) to treat X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID-X1), according to a report published online April 13 ...
These long-term findings in a large patient cohort show the sustained clinical efficacy and safety of autologous CD34+ hematopoietic stem-cell lentiviral gene therapy for ADA-SCID, indicating that it ...
“Bubble boy disease” was once a death sentence. A scientific breakthrough changed that. By Simar Bajaj A common cold was enough to kill Cora Oakley. Born in Morristown, N.J., with virtually no immune ...
Results from the largest cohort of children who received a gene therapy for a rare immunodeficiency condition have shown the long-term safety and efficacy of the curative treatment, in a study led by ...
Current GT strategies employ viral vectors (eg, murine g-retroviruses or lentiviruses) to introduce genetic material into isolated HSCs. However, gene editing (eg, CRISPR-based GT) is under active ...
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rarity PBC, a Public Benefit Corporation dedicated to expanding the availability of transformative gene therapies for rare diseases, today announced the closing of a $4.6 ...
CORONA, Calif. (KABC) -- A teenage girl is alive thanks to an experimental gene therapy treatment created at UCLA. She was born with a rare genetic disorder, so any common infection could've killed ...
Two months after she was born, Eliana Nachem got a cough that wouldn’t go away. Three weeks later, she also started having runny stool, prompting a visit to her pediatrician. Eliana didn’t have ...