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Gene-edited cells keep cancer babies well more than one year on

Reuters: Science - Posted: January 25th, 2017, 2:06pm UTC

LONDON (Reuters) - Two babies rescued from previously incurable leukemia after receiving infusions of gene-edited immune cells are doing well at home more than a year after initial treatment, scientists said on Wednesday.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=-FZAU0P9lgM:akj1xzGgjJ4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=-FZAU0P9lgM:akj1xzGgjJ4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=-FZAU0P9lgM:akj1xzGgjJ4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=-FZAU0P9lgM:akj1xzGgjJ4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=-FZAU0P9lgM:akj1xzGgjJ4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/-FZAU0P9lgM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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