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Thousands join stem cell register after Ed Sheeran appeal – Times & Star

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2017-08-24 NEWS

Times & Star

Thousands join stem cell register after Ed Sheeran appeal
Times & Star
Thousands of potential stem cell donors have come forward after musicians including Ed Sheeran encouraged people to sign up to the register. Blood cancer charity DKMS said around 4,000 additional people had signed up to its registry since the star and …

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2017-08-24 NEWS

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In Focus: Editing Human Embryos With CRISPR Is Moving Ahead – Now’s The Time To Work Out The Ethics
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In the last decade, CRISPR has been the primary tool for those seeking to modify genes – human and otherwise. Among other things, it has been used in experiments to make mosquitoes resistant to malaria, genetically modify plants to be resistant to

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2017-08-24 NEWS

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Searching in the immune checkpoint black box
Nature.com
Similarly, loss of Ptpn2 also sensitized tumours to immunotherapy in vivo. Ptpn2-null B16 tumours were significantly more sensitive to PD1 inhibition — but did not show any growth disadvantage in the absence of T cell-mediated immunity or PD1 inhibition.