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Baby girl is first in the world to be treated with 'designer immune cells'

6 November 2015

A team of researchers from Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL, including Professor Waseem Qasim and Professor Adrian Thrasher (both UCL Institute of Child Health), have developed a new treatment that uses 'molecular scissors' to edit genes and create designer immune cells. Read: Guardian, More: Telegraph, Times (£), Financial Times, Huffington Post, ITV News, New Scientist, Science, Reuters, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Zealand Herald, Listen: BBC Radio 2 'Jeremy Vine' (from 1 hour 43 mins)