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Medicines That Unleash the Immune System To Fight Cancer

July 7, 2025
The story behind the development of immune checkpoint inhibitors, fulfilling the promise of cancer…
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Stem Cell Therapy Repairs Cornea Damage Thought Irreversible

March 10, 2025

Regenerative medicine trial shows promise using patients’ own healthy corneas

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Creating the World’s First CRISPR Medicine, for Sickle Cell Disease

February 20, 2025

How a genetic insight paired with gene editing technology led to a life-changing new therapy

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Kidney Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Early Trial

February 5, 2025

The vaccine generated robust immune response in nine patients with advanced disease

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New Strategy for Preventing Relapse After CAR T-Cell Therapy

August 2, 2024

Booster treatment improved long-term immune therapy success in models of multiple myeloma

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Generating Scientists and Regenerating Lungs

April 30, 2024

Graduating PhD student Irene Wong trains young researchers and investigates respiratory diseases

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When Will Patients See Personalized Cancer Vaccines?

April 12, 2024

Sooner than you may think, says researcher who recently won $1 million prize for contributions to…

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Inside a Bacterial Defense System — and Its Defeat

January 11, 2024

Study reveals unexpected strategy in competition between bacteria and viruses

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Annual Awards Propel Basic Discoveries Into Clinic

November 15, 2023

The Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards aim to harness fundamental insights into new treatments

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A New Tool for Diagnosing Cancer

June 22, 2023

Platform combines structural details with molecular information about a tumor

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Helping Cancer-Fighting Cells Not Run Out of Steam

April 13, 2023

Researchers ID source of T-cell exhaustion that diminishes effectiveness of therapies

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Toward New Antiviral Drugs

March 9, 2023

New discovery suggests that an emerging class of small-molecule drugs may be used to disable this…

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