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    Implantable ‘Drug factories’ eliminate ovarian, colorectal cancer
    Joseph Shavit
    • Mar 9

    Implantable ‘Drug factories’ eliminate ovarian, colorectal cancer

    Rice University bioengineers have shown they can eradicate advanced-stage ovarian and colorectal cancer in mice in as little as six days.
    Patient possibly cured of HIV infection by special stem-cell transplant
    Joseph Shavit
    • Feb 19

    Patient possibly cured of HIV infection by special stem-cell transplant

    A patient with HIV who received a blood stem cell transplant for high-risk acute myeloid leukemia has been free of the virus for 14 months.
    Researchers discover a possible cure for sickle cell anemia
    Joseph Shavit
    • Feb 18

    Researchers discover a possible cure for sickle cell anemia

    While a remedy for this severe disease has remained elusive, a recent study, if proven applicable, may be a possible cure.
    Researchers discover two treatments that can cure peanut allergies in children
    Joseph Shavit
    • Feb 5

    Researchers discover two treatments that can cure peanut allergies in children

    Researchers have discovered two peanut allergy treatments for children that are both highly effective at inducing remission.
    Experimental new treatment may have cured a man of HIV
    Joseph Shavit
    • Feb 1

    Experimental new treatment may have cured a man of HIV

    A Brazilian man infected with the AIDS virus has shown no sign of it for more than a year since he stopped HIV medicines.
    Scientists regrow frog’s lost leg.  Could human limbs be next?
    Joseph Shavit
    • Jan 27

    Scientists regrow frog’s lost leg. Could human limbs be next?

    For millions of patients who have lost limbs the possibility of regaining function through natural regeneration remains out of reach.
    New discovery can cure peanut allergies in some young children
    Joseph Shavit
    • Jan 23

    New discovery can cure peanut allergies in some young children

    Giving peanut oral immunotherapy to highly peanut-allergic children safely desensitized most of them to peanuts and induced remission.
    UBC researchers develop stem cell-based 'functional cure' for Type 1 diabetes
    Joseph Shavit
    • Dec 10, 2021

    UBC researchers develop stem cell-based 'functional cure' for Type 1 diabetes

    Researchers demonstrated that a stem cell-based treatment delivered through an implantable device can produce insulin in the human body.
    Woman, 30, diagnosed with HIV 8 years ago may be naturally cured of the virus
    Joseph Shavit
    • Nov 17, 2021

    Woman, 30, diagnosed with HIV 8 years ago may be naturally cured of the virus

    An anonymous woman from Argentina has become only the second person known to ever show no detectable traces of an HIV infection

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