#Cure

Joseph Shavit

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.

Joseph Shavit

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.

Joseph Shavit

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.

Joseph Shavit

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.

Joseph Shavit

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.

Joseph Shavit

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.

Joseph Shavit

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.

Joseph Shavit

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.

Joseph Shavit

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