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Plasticell gets funding to develop blood substitute from stem cells – pharmaphorum

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2017-04-13 NEWS

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Plasticell gets funding to develop blood substitute from stem cells
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Plasticell, a developer of cell therapies including hematopoietic cell replacement therapies, has secured £920,000 from the British government’s Innovate UK to create a safe, effective red blood cell substitute for human clinical transfusion. A

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A New Flavour Of CRISPR Could Tackle Some Of The Worst Genetic Diseases
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The authors note that CRISPRCpf1 may actually be more successful at targeting Duchenne muscular dystrophy, by accessing mutation sites the more unwieldy Cas9 can’t access. Cpf1, they said, could be a powerful new tool in the CRISPR arsenal.
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