My PBS segment on the current Covid wave www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
As summer winds down, much of the U.S. is seeing the biggest COVID wave in at least two years, and hundreds of people are still being killed by the virus every week. According to a CDC analysis of hos...
ISSCR 2025 Annual Meeting Will Take Place In Hong Kong The worldâs leading stem cell scientists will gather in Hong Kong, 11-14 June 2025, for the ISSCR 2025 Annual Meeting, co-sponsored by The University of Hong Kong. www.isscr.org/upcoming-pro...
Join us in Hong Kong 11-14 June 2025 for the most comprehensive gathering in stem cell research.
World's first successful transplant of a xenothymokidney (a pig kidney and simultaneous pig thymus fragments) into a living recipient, using organs from a genetically modified pig from United Therapeutics Corporation. #Xenotransplantationir.unither.com/press-releas...
The actual press release articles
Lots of news on gene and cell therapy in the NEJM this week!đ Exagamglogene Autotemcel (#CRISPR) for Transfusion-Dependent β-Thalassemia: transfusion independence in 91% of patients. | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel) is a nonviral cell therapy designed to reactivate fetal hemoglobin synthesis through ex vivo clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)âCa...
Another phase I clinical trial demonstrating the safety and efficay of #CARTCellswww.nature.com/articles/s43...
Positive results from a phase I study using @Gilead's anti-MAGE3 and MAGE6 #CARTCellswww.pharmaceutical-technology.com/data-insight...
Stuart Orkin is part of the 100 most influential people of 2024 in TIME magazine for his discovery that one can treat several genetic hemoglobin diseases by turning on fetal hemoglobin normally silenced in adults. This lead to several FDA approved drugs. time.com/6964969/stua...
