Medical News TodayMultiple sclerosis: Novel gene immunotherapy could prevent, reverse diseaseMedical News TodayThe researchers note that their immunotherapy strategy alone was unable to reverse late-stage MS in mouse models. But when combined with a sh… Continue reading
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Targeting strategies of adenovirus‑mediated gene therapy and virotherapy for prostate cancer (Review).
UroToday Additionally, there is a lack of effective therapies for PCa at advanced stages. Novel treatment strategies such as adenovirus‑mediated gene therapy and virotherapy involve the expression of a specific therapeutic gene to induce death in cancer cells … |
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New center to advance biology research
Yale Daily News (blog) Thanks to a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation, an interdisciplinary team of Yale researchers will soon make headway on the next frontier of synthetic biology — re-engineering cells to produce novel synthetic polymers. The NSF … |
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Alcoholism Gene Therapy Shows Promise
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Scientists in North and South America have developed a form of gene therapy that could feasibly help to treat alcoholism by causing unpleasant physical side effects in individuals who imbibe. The approach harnesses a short hairpin RNA (shRNA), which is … |
Pinedale Roundup |
Saturday U brings the lecture room to Pinedale
Pinedale Roundup McCracken-Flesher’s lecture, “Writing the Way West: Authors in America,” was preceded by a talk on how synthetic biology will change medicine by Mark Gomelsky, a molecular biology professor. And it was followed by anthropology professor Robert Kelly’s … |
MIT Technology Review |
The Easiest Place to Use CRISPR Might Be in Your Ear
MIT Technology Review The usual way might be to load the gene-editing instructions into billions of viruses and use those to infect a person’s cells. But some scientists are experimenting with delivery tricks that could make treatments easier to pull off (see “Five Ways to … |
MIT Technology Review |
Five Ways to Get CRISPR into the Body
MIT Technology Review The gene-editing tool CRISPR has the potential to treat—and possibly cure—any number of diseases. But in order for CRISPR to work, it needs to find its way to the right part of the body. To do that, researchers are engineering some surprising … |