Leukemia

“There are sort of serendipitous situations where people have had, for example, really severe autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, happen to also have leukemia on the side. For the leukemia, they get an immune system reset, and then they, you know, magi…”

“If you had a child in 1970 with leukemia, he or she would have about a 10% chance of making to adulthood. So pretty grim odds. Today, if you have a child with leukemia, He or she will have closer to a 90% chance of making to adulthood, so a complete reversal i…”

“But for the most part, today, this is limited to leukemias.”

“And as we can see in leukemia, as we can see in inherited forms of blindness, as we can see in PKU, these living medicines are finally leading us to where we've always wanted to be, which is to find cures.”