Gene editing, cell therapies, lab-grown tissue. Medicine is changing fast, and most of it is explained badly. Each therapy here gets one clear card: what it is, how it works, how close it is to patients, and what could go wrong.
Every card shows where a therapy really stands, so a lab result never looks like a cure.
Shows how far a treatment has travelled from lab bench to approval. The striped bar marks where it is now.
Everyone starts with plain English. Switch to Professional for mechanisms, trial IDs and regulatory detail.
Trial results are shown as patients, not percentages, so "4 of 5" never hides that only five people were studied.
New cards every two weeks.
Cancer-fighting immune cells made inside the body with one injection, instead of in a lab over several weeks.
Editing single letters of DNA without cutting both strands. A more precise successor to CRISPR.
Gene-edited pig kidneys and hearts as a possible answer to the organ shortage.
Printing living cells and biomaterials layer by layer to build skin, cartilage and more.
A vaccine designed from each patient's own tumour to train their immune system.
Mini lab-grown organs that could make drug testing faster and reduce animal testing.
I'm Parsa, a biomedical engineer based in London. During my studies I worked on biomaterials and tissue engineering, and I kept seeing the same problem: the most exciting treatments are explained in papers that patients can't read, and in headlines that promise too much.
This site sits in between. Every card is researched from trial data and published sources, kept honest about the evidence, and drawn so anyone can follow it.