Another promising cancer treatment
Our Natural Killer (NK) cells already do a good job at looking for wrong cells. They work much like T cells in the immune system. A currently approved therapy is known as CAR-T, which modifies NK outside the body. These cells learn to recognize a common cancer marker and destroy those cells. So far this […]
Another good start for gene therapy
A combination of gene therapy and optogenetic vision restoration is showing some promise, partially restoring vision in one eye of a man suffering from retinitis pigmentosa. The improvement only worked when he was wearing special goggles that sent light pulses to his eyes. This is an exciting time for medical research. All sorts of new […]