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CRISPR tech leads to new screening tool for Parkinson’s disease – Medical Xpress

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2017-06-06 NEWS

Medical Xpress

CRISPR tech leads to new screening tool for Parkinson’s disease
Medical Xpress
They are using CRISPR Cas9 (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) gene-editing technology. The system is one of research’s fastest growing biomedical techniques that allows scientists to make specific changes in the DNA of plants …

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2017-06-06 NEWS

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New gene therapy offers hope against incurable form of breast cancer
The Guardian
BRCA genes are part of a pathway to keep cells reproducing normally. An inherited defect can fail to stop abnormal growth, thus increasing the risk of cancer. The study examined the effectiveness of olaparib against a class of BRCA-related cancers
Drug helps fight breast tumors tied to ‘cancer genesMedical Xpress

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2017-06-05 NEWS

NBCNews.com

CART Cancer Approach Has Surprising Success in Multiple Myeloma
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Doctors are reporting unprecedented success from a new cell and gene therapy for multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that’s on the rise. Although it’s early and the study is small — 35 people — every patient responded and all but two were in some level
CAR T- Cell Therapy Could Be A Promising Treatment For Multiple Myeloma CancerScience World Report
Therapy Shows High Remission Rates in Multiple MyelomaCuretoday.com
Gene-Based Therapy That Reprograms Immune Cells Offers Hope For Multiple Myeloma CureTech Times
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