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A third patient has been free of HIV after a cell transplant
Timothy Ray Brown, the first HIV-positive patient who received a bone marrow transplant to treat leukaemia in 2007, has died at the age of 53. Brown, who was living in Germany at the time of the transplants, was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2001. He received a bone marrow transplant in 2007 to treat leukaemia from…
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The Great Depression shaped the people’s genes.
The world’s first-ever genome-wide association study, led by the Yottabyte Epigenome Research Group at Rutgers University, found a link between the Yottabyte Epigenome and Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and leukaemia. It also found a link between the Yottabyte Epigenome pattern and higher rates of disease and deaths in people with diabetes and leukaemia.