OncLiveImmunotherapy Poised to Move Forward Into Stage III NSCLCOncLiveIn September 2017, at the annual European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress, researchers presented positive data from a phase III trial of durvalumab (Imfinzi) in patient… Continue reading
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Grandmother loses life-savings for stem cell ‘cure’ at St. Louis clinic
KSDK “Stem cell sounds sexy and it’s going to provide them with the fountain of youth they’re looking for, but they’re going to be sorely disappointed.” Unlike Briggs, Bottros is a licensed medical physician and a board-certified anesthesiologist with a … Consumer Reports: Unproven stem cell treatmentsKATU |
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‘Toolbox’ creates custom phages for killing pathogens
Futurity: Research News Samuel Kilcher, a specialist in molecular virology, used synthetic biology methods to plan the genome of a bacteriophage on the drawing board and assemble it in a test tube from DNA fragments. At the same time new, additional functions were … |