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Health Beat: Fighting Parkinson’s with shrimp, CRISPR – WFMZ Allentown

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2018-04-06 NEWS

WFMZ Allentown

Health Beat: Fighting Parkinson’s with shrimp, CRISPR
WFMZ Allentown
ORLANDO, Fla. – One million Americans are living with Parkinson’s disease, and for many, current medications don’t always control the side-effects and tremors. “They’ve affected me since I was in my 30s,” said Harriet Marksfield. “Sometimes you get so
YOUR HEALTH: Using seafood to fight Parkinson’s?WQAD.com

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2018-04-06 NEWS

WFMZ Allentown

Health Beat: Fighting Parkinson’s with shrimp, CRISPR
WFMZ Allentown
ORLANDO, Fla. – One million Americans are living with Parkinson’s disease, and for many, current medications don’t always control the side-effects and tremors. “They’ve affected me since I was in my 30s,” said Harriet Marksfield. “Sometimes you get so
YOUR HEALTH: Using seafood to fight Parkinson’s?WQAD.com

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2018-04-06 NEWS

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Incyte-Merck trial failure deals a blow to cancer immunotherapy, but researchers remain hopeful
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The future of cancer immunotherapy looks promising, but it suffered a major setback on Friday. Incyte announced that its trial drug epacadostat did not help melanoma patients, and the company is halting the study altogether. Epacadostat was supposed to
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Undergraduate students get rare chance to work with groundbreaking genetic engineering technique CRISPR
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It’s a groundbreaking genetic engineering technique normally reserved for research labs, but this year more than 40 undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts & Science’s human biology program had a chance to work hands-on with CRISPR, a research