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For Patients and Families

Genetic research is creating new ways for people to take action and prevent disease and new ways to treat disease through personalized medicine.

… in tumors. Children with a common type of childhood leukemia can be tested to find the right doses of …

Policy Issues

Genome editing is a method that lets scientists change the DNA of many organisms, including plants, bacteria, and animals.

… Layla received a gene editing treatment to help her fight leukemia, a type of cancer. These scientists did not use …

For Patients and Families

Pharmacogenomics combines the science of how drugs work, called pharmacology, with the science of the human genome, called genomics.

… (Purinethol) to patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Some people have a genetic variant that interferes …

Genetic Disorders

Severe Combined Immunodeficiency is a severe, genetic condition of the immune system.

… a French gene-therapy experiment had developed a type of leukemia. It was soon discovered that the mechanism used to …