Jon Spaihts ’91: The ‘Go-To Guy for Sci-Fi’ – Princeton Alumni Weekly
Princeton Alumni Weekly |
Jon Spaihts ’91: The ‘Go-To Guy for Sci-Fi’
Princeton Alumni Weekly Spaihts’ Passengers, released in December, takes place aboard a spaceship bound for a colony planet with 5,000 people in suspended animation. Unexpectedly, two of the passengers (played by Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence) wake up 90 years early … |
Drug Discovery & Development |
Immunotherapy: Training The Body to Fight Cancer
Drug Discovery & Development It can identify and destroy invaders of nearly infinite variety, yet spare the more than 30 trillion cells of the healthy body. Unfortunately, the broken cells of cancer are able to retain, and boost, the “recognize and ignore me” signals of undamaged … Immunotherapy: Could the Human Body Be Trained to Fight Cancer?Live Science Immunotherapy: The Body Can Be Trained To Fight CanceriTech Post Immune therapy scientists discover distinct cells that block cancer-fighting immune cellsScience Daily |
Genetic Literacy Project |
Hype versus hope: Deciphering news about stem cell breakthroughs
Genetic Literacy Project And stem cells that have shown promise can also cause complications. It was also reported a paraplegic woman developed a growth in her spine many years after an unsuccessful spinal stem cell treatment…Hence, more research to test these and other … |
Harvard Gazette |
A study in contrast: Copley’s America, America’s Copley
Harvard Gazette People were caught mid-gasp in the way that they were in the war and there’s a kind of chiming back and forth between being in suspended animation in that painting and where the national psyche was when he exhibited it in London. GAZETTE: How do you … |
FierceBiotech |
Gene therapy helps deaf mice hear sounds as soft as whispers
FierceBiotech Scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School are reporting today that they’ve perfected a form of gene therapy originally developed to restore hearing, and as a result, genetically deaf mice are able to hear down to 25 decibels. Gene therapy delivered by virus restores hearing and balance in mice with genetic disorderResearchGate (blog) Gene therapy restores hearing in deaf mice: Experts say the technique could be used in humans in THREE YEARSDaily Mail Gene therapy allows ‘deaf’ mice to hearWired.co.uk The News International –BioNews –PR Newswire (press release) all 8 news articles » |
Science Daily |
Gene therapy restores hearing in deaf mice, down to a whisper
Science Daily In the summer of 2015, a team at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School reported restoring rudimentary hearing in genetically deaf mice using gene therapy. Now the Boston Children’s research team reports restoring a much higher level of … |
Clinical Oncology News |
Immunotherapy May Need To Have Its Own Value Model
Clinical Oncology News National Harbor, Md.—Immunotherapy has been a game changer for the oncology field, but typical models used to assess the value of cancer treatments don’t take into account the unique characteristics of this therapy, according to experts at the 2016 … |