CRISPR Takes a Leap Forward With Huntington’s Disease – Yahoo News
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CRISPR Takes a Leap Forward With Huntington’s Disease
Yahoo News Basically, it allows the selective editing of genes, potentially allowing humans to fix errors that cause genetic diseases and any other number of science fiction-like applications. The main problem is CRISPR can cause mistakes in DNA after the cut … |
Financial Express |
Antibiotics may impact cancer treatment efficacy
Science Daily With this approach, physicians retrieve T cells from a patient’s blood, engineer them to express a tumor-finding receptor – called chimeric antigen receptor, or CAR – and give them back to the patient. These patients typically will receive a … Antibiotic use may affect efficacy of cancer immunotherapiesNews-Medical.net Antibiotics may impact cancer treatment efficacy | EurekAlert …EurekAlert (press release) Proceed with caution: Antibiotics may influence effectiveness of cancer treatmentHindustan Times The Siasat Daily all 3 news articles » |
The Hindu |
Dual mechanism for embryonic stem cells to maintain pluripotency
The Hindu Embryonic stem cells are capable of generating all the cell types that compose the organs and systems of the human body. Now, researchers at Pune’s National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS) have found a dual mechanism that keeps specific genes off, which … |
FOX40 |
Families Hold Out Hope for Advances in Dental Stem Cell Therapy
FOX40 Preserving dental pulp stem cells is a trend that’s been growing nationwide in the past 10 years. Dental stem cells are different from stem cells extracted from embryos, however, and have not been proven to have any medical benefit yet. Though … |
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Stem cell kidney gives hope to sufferers
SBS After discovering how to use stem cells to build a mini-kidney, they successfully transplanted the tissue into a mouse, enabling blood flow through nephrons – or filters. Director of Cell Biology at Melbourne’s Murdoch Children’s Research Institute … |