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New Kind Of 'Designer' Immune Cells Clear Baby's Leukemia

New Kind Of 'Designer' Immune Cells Clear Baby's Leukemia

by The Daily Eye Team November 7 2015, 11:06 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 42 secs

A baby whom doctors thought almost certain to die has been cleared of a previously incurable leukemia in the first human use of an “off-the-shelf” cell therapy from Collect is that creates designer immune cells. One-year-old Layla had run out of all other treatment options when doctors at Britain’s Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) gave her the highly experimental, genetically edited cells in a tiny 1-milliliter intravenous infusion. Two months later, she was cancer-free and she is now home from hospital, the doctors said at a briefing about her case in London on Wednesday. “Her leukemia was so aggressive that such a response is almost a miracle,” said Paul Veys, a professor and director of bone marrow transplant at GOSH who led the team treating Layla.

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