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Rewired Olympic Brains; Gene Therapy Concerns; Memory Boost from Implant – MedPage Today

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2018-02-13 NEWS

MedPage Today

Rewired Olympic Brains; Gene Therapy Concerns; Memory Boost from Implant
MedPage Today
Building new cerebral maps and subduing reflexes: here’s how Olympic ice skaters rewire their brains to execute complex routines. (Scientific American). Sandoz’s generic form of glatiramer acetate for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, sold as

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Can gene therapy be harnessed to fight AIDS?
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Gene therapy techniques have advanced greatly,” said Dr. Otto Yang of the UCLA AIDS Institute, one place working on this. “A lot of people are thinking it’s the right time to go back.” They include Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute
Gene therapy could hold key to improving Aids treatment and beating devastating virusThe Independent
Can gene therapy be used to fight the AIDS virus?KHQ Right Now
Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Fight HIVIosco County News Herald

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Science Daily

Clues to aging found in stem cells‘ genomes
Science Daily
Stem cells that produce sperm use a genetic trick to stay perpetually young across generations, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator Yukiko Yamashita and colleagues have discovered. Certain sections of the fruit fly genome get shorter

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