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However, the injected cells remained healthy in animals that were treated with the antibodies, and three months after drug treatment had ended these transplanted cells were even found to be replicating in some of the animals.
ECONOMIST: Breaching the body's defences
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Since being diagnosed with neuroblastoma - a cancer of the nerve cells - Belle has been undergoing treatment at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton as part of a clinical trial.
BBC: Alistair and Belle
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The ultimate treatment might be using healthy stem cells to replace damaged cells in the macula.
FORBES: Banishing Blind Spots
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Five patients with a lethal leukemia achieved complete and rapid remissions after the treatment, in which cells from their own immune systems were genetically altered to specifically attack the disease.
WSJ: Gene Therapy Shows Promise as Cancer Treatment
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They observed it was present at higher levels in cancer cells that were resistant to a common treatment for the disease.
BBC: Dundee researchers find chemotherapy efficacy gene
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Dr Jane Stewart, a spokeswoman for British Fertility Society and consultant gynaecologist at Newcastle Fertility Centre said the ability to generate gametes (reproducing cells) or gamete producing cells in the lab would be a "landmark achievement in the understanding and potentially treatment of fertility problems".
BBC: Stem cell sperm study leads to successful mouse births
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To see if the treatment could be effective, they grew balls of cancer cells in a laboratory, some with low amounts of P-glycoprotein, and others with high.
BBC: NEWS | Health | Cancer 'bouncers' keep drugs out
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The researchers said drugs that enhance the activity of calcineurin or NFAT could become a new treatment for type-2 diabetes, in which the beta cells do not produce enough insulin.
BBC: NEWS | Health | Hope for new diabetes treatment
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These stem cells are important to study many diseases, but in the future they may also be used to as a treatment in their own right.
BBC: NEWS | Health | 'This is a very exciting advance'
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The study, called EMERGE, evaluated 122 breast cancer patients who had failed at least three rounds of treatment and whose tumors expressed the GPNMB protein in at least 5% of their cells.
FORBES: Celldex Therapeutics Breast Cancer Drug Shows Strong Results In Some Patients