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UofL receives $13.8M grant for adult stem cell research – WAVE 3

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2017-09-29 NEWS

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UofL receives $13.8M grant for adult stem cell research
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The research will use a newly discovered type of adult cardiac stem cell. “The overall goal is to advance the use of adult stem cells to treat heart failure,” Bolli said. Bolli said the research will be broken down into four projects. He said his team
UofL gets $13.8M grant to study stem cellsWHAS 11.com
UofL receives $13.8 million to study use of new stem cell to treat heart failureEurekAlert (press release)

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Immunotherapy for Relapsed or Refractory NSCLC
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Everett Vokes, MD: At the current state of affairs, where we have second-line immune therapies that we routinely give, for pembrolizumab, there’s guidelines to look at PD-L1 expression. But for nivolumab and atezolizumab, those recommendations don’t exist.

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OncLive

Immunotherapy for Relapsed or Refractory NSCLC
OncLive
Everett Vokes, MD: At the current state of affairs, where we have second-line immune therapies that we routinely give, for pembrolizumab, there’s guidelines to look at PD-L1 expression. But for nivolumab and atezolizumab, those recommendations don’t exist.

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2017-09-29 NEWS

To Speed CRISPR/Cas9’s Search and Snip, Try Extra Cas9 and gRNA
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
CRISPR/Cas9 pays for its flexible association mechanism with slow kinetics.

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Two patients show the promise of a historic treatment, with an equally historic price tag
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Kymriah is among a new wave of therapies that use a patient’s own cells as medicine. The technology it uses is CAR-T, for chimeric antigen-receptor Tcell therapy. It uses viruses to deliver genetic material to patients’ immune cells, equipping them
Cancer Cure News: More Companies’ Version of CART Treatment Expected to be ApprovedChristian Post
How to invest in the fight against cancerMoneyWeek

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To Speed CRISPR-Cas9’s Search and Snip, Try Extra Cas9 and gRNA
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
The CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system is advantaged by its targeting mechanism’s inherent flexibility, but disadvantaged by this mechanism’s inherent slowness. The mechanism, which depends on a guide RNA (gRNA)-programmable protein, can take a …

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2017-09-29 NEWS

To Speed CRISPR/Cas9’s Search and Snip, Try Extra Cas9 and gRNA
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
The CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing system is advantaged by its targeting mechanism’s inherent flexibility, but disadvantaged by this mechanism’s inherent slowness. The mechanism, which depends on a guide RNA (gRNA)-programmable protein, can take a …

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