The largest clinical trial ever to administer genetically altered cells into humans with HIV revealed that the therapy was safe and effective and may lead to a cure for HIV. The test involving 74 patients at UCLA was hailed as a "major advance in the field" of HIV research.
A new stem cell treatment reverses Alzheimer-like memory impairment in mice, according to researchers at the University of South Florida and James A. Haley Hospital. Based on the promising findings, the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation is funding a pilot clinical trial on humans.
Instead of experimenting on mice, researchers went straight to testing on human cells – and their studies have been proven successful in halting Alzheimer's in its tracks.
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Scientists say they have taken a big step towards blocking a chemical vital to the growth of many cancers, an enzyme which, when active, helps keep cells in an "immortal" state. The chemical is at work in more than nine out of ten types of tumour. (Read details of the latest report from journal Nature […]
Capsaicin, the compound that makes you sweat and your tounge burn after eating habanero peppers, is responsible for inducing the death of prostate cancer cells.
Two women losing their sight to progressive forms of blindness may have regained some vision while participating in an experiment testing a treatment made from human embryonic stem cells, the first time researchers directly helped patients with these types of stem cells.
A year ago, when chemotherapy stopped working against his leukemia and he had nothing to lose, William Ludwig signed up to be the first patient treated in a bold experiment. Doctors removed a billion of his T-cells and re-engineered them before reinsertion. A few weeks later, his leukemia was gone.
Scientists took patients with a virtually incurable disease into complete remission by training their blood cells to fight the stubborn cancer.
UCSD researchers are gearing up to begin a phase 2 clinical trial for a hydrogel that repairs heart tissue after a successful test in humans proving safety.
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