Despite the crazy brigade that trolls the forum screeching unsubstantiated claims that GMOs are evil and big Pharma is sitting on cures for cancer, here's an excellent bit of news that should shut them up. (SHould, but wont, because they're either idiots or insane.)
US regulators fast-track novel leukemia therapyUS regulators on Monday put an experimental immunotherapy agent on the fast track to market approval, after 89 percent of leukemia patients in early trials saw their cancers disappear.
The personalized immunotherapy known as CTL019 was developed by the University of Pennsylvania and was designated a "breakthrough therapy" by the US Food and Drug Administration. That means the experimental therapy will benefit from a speedier than average review process and will get extra attention from the FDA toward development for market. It is the first cancer immunotherapy to receive the breakthrough designation, and only the fifth biologic agent so far.
The approach works by extracting a patient's T-cells, then genetically programming them in the lab to target cancer cells that produce a protein called CD19.
The altered T-cells are then re-injected into the patient's body, where they multiply and attack cancer.
Hurrah for science, down with the idiots who will now start screeching that cancer patients would be better off without this new therapy, because GMO!
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