16 May 2023
A genetic alteration that extends the life of mice can be transferred to other mice via blood stem cells, and this could soon be tested in humans as a cancer treatment
11 December 2022
A 13-year-old girl whose leukaemia had not responded to other treatments now has no detectable cancer cells after receiving a dose of immune cells that were genetically edited to attack the cancer
8 June 2022
A personalised mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer has produced promising results in a small initial trial involving people whose cancers were detected early enough to be operated on
12 October 2021
Gut bacteria engineered to produce a signal when they eat chunks of DNA from cancer cells could form an early warning test for the disease, tests in mice suggest
28 April 2021
In animal studies, "smart" immune cells genetically engineered to attack tumours in a new way eradicated brain, ovarian and asbestos-related tumours where normal immune cells failed
2 April 2021
Sponges have cells that divide throughout their life so they should be prone to cancers, but they have survived 100 times the lethal dose of radiation for humans without any sign of tumours
7 August 2020
We’ve just discovered that people who are obese have larger organs and thus more cells that might mutate, which could explain their higher risk of getting some cancers
30 March 2020
A blood test developed and checked using blood samples from 4000 people can accurately detect more than 50 cancer types
21 February 2020
A genetic tweak can make cells self-destruct in the presence of CRISPR and could be used to make cells tamper-proof or shut them down if they go wrong
6 February 2020
Three people with advanced tumours received a dose of CRISPR gene-edited immune cells and had no serious side effects, paving the way for more trials using this technique
