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Immunotherapy Combo for Metastatic Lung Cancer Shows Success – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

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2018-04-06 NEWS

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Immunotherapy Combo for Metastatic Lung Cancer Shows Success
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
We’ve come to the point in modern medicine where a single compound to treat a complex disease like cancer has become increasingly less of an option. However, on the positive side, the number of successful combination therapies continues to grow. For

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2018-04-06 NEWS

Mechanism vital to keeping blood stem cells functional uncovered
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The team’s key discovery was that stem cells lacking an enzyme responsible for pseudouridine modification of RNA, known as PUS7, produce abnormal amounts of protein. This protein overload leads to unbalanced stem cell growth and dramatically blocks

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2018-04-06 NEWS

MIT Technology Review

This company can encode your favorite song in DNA—for $100000
MIT Technology Review
Leproust is cofounder and CEO of Twist Bioscience, a five-year-old startup that is, by some estimates, the world’s largest supplier of manufactured DNA strands, or synthetic genes. Custom-ordered genes are the raw material of synthetic biology and the

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2018-04-06 NEWS

MIT Technology Review

This company can encode your favorite song in DNA—for $100000
MIT Technology Review
Leproust is cofounder and CEO of Twist Bioscience, a five-year-old startup that is, by some estimates, the world’s largest supplier of manufactured DNA strands, or synthetic genes. Custom-ordered genes are the raw material of synthetic biology and the

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2018-04-06 NEWS

EurekAlert (press release)

It’s all about the (stem cell) neighborhood
EurekAlert (press release)
A team headed by Gedas Greicius and Professor David Virshup, Director of the Programme in Cancer & Stem Cell Biology in Duke-NUS Medical School, studied the source and functional role of Wnts and RSPO3 [1]. RSPO3 is by far the most abundant R-spondin
Mechanism vital to keeping blood stem cells functional uncoveredScience Codex
Why cells with identical genes perform unique jobs — ScienceDailyScience Daily

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