US EditionIn a First, This Personalized Cell Therapy Treated Three Life-Threatening Autoimmune Diseases in One Patient
The woman stopped needing blood transfusions and blood-thinning medication after 11 months of follow-up, researchers said.
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In a First, This Personalized Cell Therapy Treated Three Life-Threatening Autoimmune Diseases in One Patient
The patient was bedridden and needed daily blood transfusions, and she had tried nine different therapies that didn't bring lasting effects. So, researchers modified some of her immune cells so they would attack her faulty cells
CAR T Therapy Shows Promise Against Autoimmune Diseases
in 2026, medical breakthroughs sometimes include uses of technology that sound like the stuff of science fiction stories. Among those breakthroughs is CAR T therapy, a form of genetic engineering that involves using a patient’s own genetic material to help treat a physical condition. Initially, CAR T therapy was used to treat cancer, but more recently the techique has been expanded to treat other conditions, such as lupus.A paper published earli…
A 47-year-old woman who was simultaneously suffering from three serious autoimmune diseases managed to enter remission after receiving a single application of experimental cell therapy, according to a case report published in the scientific journal Med. 14 months after the intervention, the patient did not present symptoms or need medication for any of the pathologies, an unprecedented result for a picture of that complexity.The woman suffered f…
A woman with an extremely rare combination of three autoimmune diseases remains without symptoms after receiving a single dose of genetically modified immune cells, according to doctors in Germany, in a case that opens up new perspectives for the treatment of diseases considered incurable.
World First: Cell Therapy "Reprogrammed" the Immune System of a Woman with Three Autoimmune Diseases
A woman who lived with three autoimmune diseases for more than a decade is now in complete remission after a cell therapy that appears to have “rebooted” her dysfunctional immune system. The 47-year-old required daily blood transfusions and anticoagulant drugs to control her condition. She had also undergone nine different treatments, none of which worked in the long term, before resorting to the experimental treatment at the University Hospital…
One woman, three autoimmune diseases: CAR-T therapy vanquishes ultra-rare disease trio
Edward Chen in Nature: A woman with an ultra-rare combination of three autoimmune diseases has had no symptoms since receiving a single dose of engineered immune cells, doctors in Germany report today1. She had previously received nine other types of treatment without getting better, could no longer work and was sometimes bedridden for weeks with pain and fatigue. “Her disease got completely out of hand” and became “very life-threatening”, says …
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