Study: Immunotherapy Halts Insulin Destruction in Type 1 DiabetesAJMC.com Managed Markets NetworkIn a placebo-controlled trial of 27 patients, they found that patients who were within the first 100 days of T1D diagnosis could be treated every 2 to 4 we… Continue reading
The HinduThalassemia survivor meets her stem cell donorThe HinduKOCHI: Giving life is a divine act, and that was how Kiran Kumar Karamchedu described the act of blood stem cell donation by Shabas T.S. that gave his daughter Manasvi a new lease of life… Continue reading
PLoS Blogs (blog)Fragrant Moss: a Product of Synbio and a Symbol for the Future.PLoS Blogs (blog)Many of you will remember the Kickstarter funded synthetic biology project Glowing plants. In the spring of 2013 Antony Evans (CEO and founder of Glowing p… Continue reading
AGTC files investigational NDA for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa gene therapyHealioApplied Genetic Technologies Corporation has filed an investigational new drug application with the FDA to begin a phase 1/2 clinical trial of its gene therapy candidate… Continue reading
eGenesis Study Addressing Cross-Species Viral Transmission Concern in Xenotransplantation Published in SciencePharmiWeb.com (press release)CRISPR refers to Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats occurring in the genome of certain bac… Continue reading
MedscapeImmunotherapy for Type 1 Diabetes Safe, Promising in Small StudyMedscapeProinsulin peptide immunotherapy, used much like allergy desensitization, is safe and shows signs of dampening autoimmunity in patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes… Continue reading
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CRISPR makes piglets that may be better organ donors for humans
New Scientist Luhan Yang of Boston biotech firm eGenesis and colleagues have previously shown they could use the highly efficient gene-editing technique CRISPR to disable the PERVs in pig cells grown in a dish. Now they have taken the genetic material from such … CRISPR Opens Up New Possibilities for Transplants Using Pig OrgansMIT Technology Review CRISPR‘d pigs offer hope for the human organ transplant shortageTechCrunch CRISPR slices virus genes out of pigs, but will it make organ transplants to humans safer?Science Magazine The Scientist –STAT –Fortune –New York Times all 75 news articles » |