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China Regenerative’s Stem Cell Research Sparks Hope – Bloomberg

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2017-08-04 NEWS

Bloomberg

China Regenerative’s Stem Cell Research Sparks Hope
Bloomberg
Stem cells can become just about any sort of tissue, if cultivated correctly. With so many potential applications, the companies that perfect the use of stem cells first will stake a claim on massive profits. Hong Kong’s China Regenerative Medicine is

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2017-08-03 NEWS

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Better babies through Crispr
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Well, thanks to the gene-editing technology Crispr, maybe your chances have just improved. As reported in The New York Times, and originally in the journal Nature, scientists using newly developed Crispr techniques have radically improved their ability
US scientists have corrected a genetic heart mutation in embryos using CRISPRTechCrunch
CRISPR Helped ‘Edit’ A Human Embryo — But That’s Not All It Can DoHuffPost
Chinese research claiming a gene-editing alternative to CRISPR was just withdrawnQuartz
Vox –Newsweek –Chemistry World (subscription) –MIT Technology Review
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2017-08-03 NEWS

Richmond.com

Redskins TE Jordan Reed’s toe injury flared up after a stemcell treatment
Richmond.com
However, after the summer sessions, he got a stemcell treatment on the toe. “That kind of flared it up a bit on me,” he said. “Now I’m just letting it calm down before I get out there.” Reed hasn’t yet participated in training camp. He visited a

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2017-08-03 NEWS

Cancer Immunotherapy, Part 3: Challenges and Future Trends
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One major limitation of cancer immunotherapy is the availability of known targetable tumor-specific antigens (TSAs), also called “neoantigens,” that are solely expressed by tumor cells. Tumor-associated antigens, which are expressed by both tumor and …