Emma Whitehead, 7, has been in full remission for months after scientists used a disabled form of H.I.V. to reprogram her immune system genetically to kill cancer cells.
She is the first child and one of the first humans ever in whom new techniques have achieved a long-sought goal — giving a patient’s own immune system the lasting ability to fight cancer.
In Girl’s Last Hope, Altered Immune Cells Beat Leukemia By Denise Grady New York Times
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