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Researchers Study Cure for Type 1 Diabetes in Stem Cell Transplantations – Defiance Crescent News (subscription)

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2017-03-08 NEWS

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Researchers Study Cure for Type 1 Diabetes in Stem Cell Transplantations
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DUARTE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mar 7, 2017–Some type 1 diabetes (T1D) patients can be cured from the disease, at least for a number of years, with a stem cell transplant — those were the results of a clinical trial monitored by City of Hope’s Bart
Stem cell transplant findings could lead to personalised type 1 diabetes treatmentsDiabetes.co.uk

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The Download, Mar 8, 2017: CIA Leak Realism, Democratizing Gene Therapy, and Luxurious Smartphones
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You probably can’t afford gene therapy—but a new lab-in-a-box may change that. Even though the technique is becoming a medical reality, most successful therapies require days of work by teams of world-class scientists in the multimillion-dollar clean

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CRISPR Could Domesticate Wild Crops While Avoiding ‘Frankenfoods’
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A team of plant biologists, ethicists and social scientists from the University of Copenhagen proposes to use CRISPR, the precision gene-editing technology, to rapidly domesticate wild plants. Tweaking the genes of wild foods could produce nutritious