First the rumor and the fact that I did not find any supporting evidence for it: Pharmaceutical companies are actively suppressing cures in favor of treatment therapies for economic reasons.

What I found was an August 2011 report on the results of a clinical trail where they used T-cells from the patients' own blood to modify the T-cells' genes so that the T-cells would attack another type cell called a B cell of which the patients's leukemia cancer cells were made up of. There were only three patients and it was a success in that it saved the patients lives, but there were complications. BUT, a better designed cancer cell identification and targeted attack would avoid the complications in this clinical trial. It seems very promising.

The problem I have had this night is that I cannot find any up-to-date articles on the Internet that show that researchers are now getting grants and pursuing this most promising form of gene therapy. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Cane