leukaemia
World-first base-edited gene therapy helps patients fight previously incurable blood cancer
Posted in Highlights from UCL, Medicine, Science on 17th Dec, 2025
by Alexander Muller
A groundbreaking new treatment using genome-edited immune cells, developed by scientists at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), has shown promising results in helping children and adults fight a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer.
Making immunotherapy better for children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Posted in Medicine, Science on 1st Oct, 2025
by Alexander Muller
Thanks to immunotherapy, doctors have another option when more traditional ALL drugs stop working. Now, they can train patients’ own immune cells to find and destroy their cancer.
Researchers find way to target cancer while protecting healthy tissue
Posted in Medicine, Science on 24th Jun, 2022
by Alex Muller
Researchers have discovered how to target stem cells affected by leukaemia without causing harm to healthy stem cells, paving the way for new, safer treatments for the disease.
'Designer cells' reverse one-year-old's leukaemia
Posted in Medicine on 6th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
'The technology is moving very fast, the ability to target very specific regions of the genome have suddenly become much more efficient'
Diabetes drug may help in leukaemia
Posted in Medicine on 3rd Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller
A drug used to treat diabetes could help in the fight against blood cancer, early research in the journal Nature suggests.