'Designer' cells save baby from leukaemia

A new kind of 'designer' immune cells have saved a one-year-old baby from dying of leukaemia.

Layla Richards.

Layla Richards. Source: SBS News

A baby whom doctors thought almost certain to die has been cleared of a previously incurable leukemia in the first human use of an "off-the-shelf" cell therapy from Cellectis that creates designer immune cells.

One-year-old Layla had run out of all other treatment options when doctors at Britain's Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) gave her the highly experimental, genetically edited cells in a tiny one-millilitre intravenous infusion.


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