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Oscar Murphy before CAR-T cell treatment

Health United Kingdom

20. January 2026

Living Cancer Drug Offered to Patient for First Time

In the UK, a breakthrough “living drug” has been given to an NHS patient with aggressive leukaemia, opening access to a powerful personalised therapy that can deliver long-term remission and potential cures.

Health

Health USA

28. October 2025

Engineered Immune Cells Offer New Hope in Cancer Treatment

Scientists have developed a new generation of immune cells that could transform cancer therapy. This breakthrough could make rapid, off-the-shelf treatments possible.

Health

Health United Kingdom

17. October 2025

Groundbreaking Hope for Once Untreatable Disease

Scientists have unveiled the first-ever treatment that makes a real impact on Huntington’s disease — a genetic neurodegenerative disorder once seen as untreatable.

Health

Health The World

15. October 2025

Life-Saving Medicines Made More Accessible

The World Health Organization has added vital treatments for cancer, diabetes, and obesity to its Essential Medicines Lists — a move that will make groundbreaking therapies more widely available worldwide.

Health

Edwin Motse, an HIV-positive Aids activist in Botswana with his daughter Ompi

Health Botswana

11. September 2025

An Extraordinary Transformation towards an AIDS-Free Generation

Botswana has achieved what once seemed impossible: almost eliminating HIV transmission from mothers to their babies, making it the first high-HIV-burden country to earn the World Health Organization’s Gold Tier recognition.

Health

single human stem cell embedded within a porous hydrogel matrix

Health USA

27. June 2025

This Therapy Could Cure Acute Blood Cancer

A new clinical trial of a specific CAR T-cell therapy, the prodigal new therapeutic technique in immunotherapy, shows high remission rates among patients suffering from an aggressive blood cancer, with eight out of eleven participants being in complete remission.

Health

Health South Korea

11. May 2025

Groundbreaking: Cancer Cells Converted Back to Normal Cells!

A research team affiliated with Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, located in South Korea, managed to convert colon cancer cells back into normal cells without killing them, thus avoiding side effects.

Technology

Human cells imaged using Cell Painting. Cell nuclei are shown in blue, actin filaments in yellow, the endoplasmic reticulum in magenta, golgi bodies in cyan, and mitochondria in green.

Technology United States

12. April 2025

Advanced Tech Helps Scientists Learn More About Genes

A new genome-wide visualization approach is helping scientists study a wider variety of cell types.

Health

Health USA

14. March 2025

New – and Cheaper – Treatment Against Sickle Cell Disease

Two independent papers praised the new bone marrow transplant method to cure sickle cell disease, a more accessible and less costly procedure than recently approved gene therapies.

Health

Health The World

26. November 2024

This Cancer Treatment Could Also Cure Lupus!

A treatment developed to kill malignant blood cancer cells has been experimentally, and successfully, administered to patients suffering from lupus, giving hope to millions of a durable cure for the autoimmune disease.