(Gizmodo) – Scientists are developing new forms of CAR T cell therapy that may finally be able to treat solid tumors.

An experimental treatment may have just given a 3-year-old boy with advanced liver cancer a new lease on life.

Doctors at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas and others detailed the near-miraculous turn of events in a report earlier this month. The boy’s metastatic cancer went into complete remission after receiving a novel form of immunotherapy—a remission that has lasted for at least a year. He’s part of an ongoing phase I trial that will test the treatment on dozens of other similar patients. (Read More)