Beware of where you go to get a Stem Cell Transplant!Miami’s Community NewspapersRecently, the New York Times published an article about three women that apparently had lost their vision after receiving a Stem Cell transplant in a clinic operating in t… Continue reading
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Muscular Dystrophy News |
Benitec’s Gene Therapy Approach Restores Muscle Strength in Mice with OPMD
Muscular Dystrophy News A gene therapy approach that Benitec Biopharma is developing for oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) brought impaired muscle strength in mice back to healthy levels and decreased their muscle fibrosis, or scarring, according to a preclinical … |
Slate Magazine (blog) |
Future Tense Newsletter: What Exactly Is Synthetic Biology?
Slate Magazine (blog) Each month, we choose a new tech topic and break it down, and April’s topic will be synthetic biology. Jacob Brogan gets us started with a conversational introduction explaining what synthetic biology is exactly and a cheat sheet to guide us through … |
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Entangled with Synthetic Yeast: Social Dimensions of the Sc2.0 project
PLoS Blogs (blog) The first synthetic biology effort to build a comprehensively re-designed eukaryotic genome recently made news with seven papers in a special issue of Science[i] (see also ‘Extreme Makeover'[ii]). The project – Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2.0,[iii] more … |
Immuno-Oncology News |
Fred Hutchinson Researchers Present New Findings on Cancer Immunotherapy
Immuno-Oncology News Immunotherapy is a type of treatment that aims to boost the patient’s own immune system to detect and eliminate cancer cells. It uses molecules produced by the body or in a laboratory to improve or restore the body’s natural defenses against cancer growth. Ovarian cancer: Effective immunotherapy steps closer with new T cell studyMedical News Today Tumor microenvironment poses unique challenges for effective ovarian cancer T-cell therapyNews-Medical.net |