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FDA Approves Gilead Cancer Gene Therapy – HuffPost

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2017-10-19 NEWS

FDA Approves Gilead Cancer Gene Therapy
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(Reuters) – U.S. regulators approved on Wednesday a new therapy for a type of lymphoma, which was developed by Gilead Science Inc’s (GILD.O) Kite Pharma, marking the second approval for this potentially revolutionary approach to fighting cancer.

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2017-10-19 NEWS

CRISPR Gene Editing Aims to Improve ‘Orphan Crops’
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Nigel and other researchers are working to stay ahead of cassava brown streak using a new technology: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat, or CRISPR. CRISPR allows geneticists to identify a specific genetic sequence within an …

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‘Synthetic gene circuit’ may improve effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy
Medical News Today
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge suggest that their artificial DNA-encoded circuits may help to overcome some of the problems that have dogged the translation of cancer immunotherapy from the laboratory to …
Gene circuit switches on inside cancer cells, triggers immune attackMedical Xpress

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