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biotechnology

Chill Out: New Freezing Technology Could Help Deliver The Future Of Medicine

Sam Worley
Mckenna Bryant
September 26, 2018
When Dr. Edward Scott started his career as a hematologist in the 1970s, he diagnosed blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, treating them with traditional methods such as chemotherapy, transfusions and bone marrow transplants.
But as medical technologies evolved and treatments became more targeted, he found his company was spending more and more time isolating and capturing components of the blood called mononuclear cells, which are critical to the immune system — and an integral component in today’s cutting-edge cell therapies.
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medicine

Good Pill Hunting: How Biotech Fell In Love With Beantown

Tomas Kellner
May 14, 2018
Boston is home to what might be the world’s premier biotechnology cluster. It includes big pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and Sanofi, plucky upstarts such as Editas Medicine, a gene-editing company, and many research labs. GE’s own biotechnology business, GE Healthcare Life Sciences, recently moved its U.S. headquarters into the area.
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
May 12, 2018
Researchers in Berkeley are working on a way to implant and erase sensations in the brain with a holographic laser, engineers in Canada plan to use “spooky action at a distance” to sniff out planes and missiles invisible on radar, and a “stealth startup” near Boston is seeking to reverse aging in dogs and potentially humans. This weekly dose of science could have a lasting impact.
 

 

False Positive
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Cell Therapy

In Cold Blood: These Scientists Are Using Very, Very Cool Science To Fight Cancer

Fred Guterl
April 11, 2018
When doctors diagnosed 5-year-old Emily Whitehead with leukemia in 2010, they quickly ordered a round of chemotherapy, the standard treatment. But unlike most kids suffering from her type of blood cancer, she failed to respond to it and the disease returned. Her medical team decided to fight back with a bone marrow transplant, but Emily relapsed once again just weeks before the surgery.
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Personalized Medicine

Industrial Medicine: Cell Therapy Scales Up

Maggie Sieger
March 05, 2018
In October, scientists in Boston revealed they’d used genetically modified cells to cure 15 boys of a nerve disease that until now has been nearly 100 percent fatal. During a clinical trial, which lasted two years, doctors used experimental gene therapy to treat the boys with their own engineered cells. When the results came in, 15 of the 17 boys had no remaining disabilities.
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Survivor: This Woman’s Battle With Leukemia Is Pointing The Way To The Future Of Healthcare

Bruce Watson
Kristin Kloberdanz
December 22, 2017
In the spring of 2016, 32-year-old Nicole Gularte grew weak and lost her ability to see colors from her left eye. She knew that her leukemia had returned.
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New Center Helps Scientists Reprogram The Immune System to Kill Cancer

Tomas Kellner
November 12, 2017
Nicole Gularte was 26 years old and straight out of graduate school when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, also known as ALL, in 2010. This type of fast-moving blood cancer causes the bone marrow to produce too many immature white blood cells, called lymphocytes, which can spread the disease to other parts of the body. If left untreated, it can turn deadly within months.
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
November 03, 2017
Breaking news about smartphone screens, programmable virus-like particles that doctors could one day use to fight disease, and clothes with memory — if this week's roundup of discoveries is any indication, science is clearly in fashion.
 

No Chip on Their Shoulder

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Cell Therapy

Pump Up The Volume: ‘Genome Sculpting’ Could Help Scale Biotherapeutic Medicine

March 15, 2017

The first biopharmaceutical drugs using complex organic molecules produced by genetically modified cells to deliver more efficient therapies have already started to write the next chapter of medicine. Treatments designed from lab-made versions of large proteins are now being used to treat cancers and autoimmune disorders like multiple sclerosis. Research shows they might also do well against infectious diseases.

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Just What The Doctor Ordered: GE Acquires Biosafe to Advance Cell Therapy

Dorothy Pomerantz
August 15, 2016
Cell therapy is the next great frontier in medicine. The treatment, which removes and, in some cases, genetically modifies cells and then places them into a patient, holds amazing potential to fight many diseases and disorders ranging from cancer to complications from diabetes, as well as rare ailments like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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