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PLOS iGEM Realtime Peer Review Jamboree – take part! – PLoS Blogs (blog)

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2018-02-16 NEWS

PLoS Blogs (blog)

PLOS iGEM Realtime Peer Review Jamboree – take part!
PLoS Blogs (blog)
On February 23rd PLOS and iGEM will be holding the second Realtime Peer Review Jamboree and we’d like YOU to take part in reviewing iGEM Project Reports and Research Papers. The all-day event will be hosted on the PLOS Syn Bio Breezio platform where

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2018-02-16 NEWS

Carlisle Sentinel

Can gene therapy be harnessed to fight the AIDS virus? | Live Well …
Carlisle Sentinel
For more than a decade, the strongest AIDS drugs could not fully control Matt Chappell’s HIV infection. Now his body controls it by itself, and researchers are trying to perfect.

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2018-02-16 NEWS

Phys.Org

Using CRISPR to create a cell ‘black box’ to record cell life events
Phys.Org
In this new effort, the researchers report on a technique they have developed called the CRISPR-mediated analog multi-event recording apparatus (CAMERA), which they have used to create two types of cell recording systems. In the first, called CAMERA 1

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2018-02-16 NEWS

Harvard Health (blog)

Stemcell transplant: A possible high-risk/high-reward treatment for scleroderma
Harvard Health (blog)
Some medical news stories don’t get the attention they deserve. Perhaps it’s because the disease is rare and not many people have ever heard of it. I think this story about a new treatment for scleroderma is a good example. What’s scleroderma? The term