The Edge Markets MYScience and Innovation: Stem cell therapies not ready for marketThe Edge Markets MYThere are many advertisements touting the power of stem cell treatments to reverse ageing and cure diseases, but consumers should be careful because m… Continue reading
FuturismScientists Coax Human Stem Cells Into Becoming Touch NeuronsFuturismSensory interneurons, the cells that give us our sense of touch, allow us to experience the world through tactile experiences that can become lost to us in the case of paralysi… Continue reading
Comparing Editas Medicine (EDIT) and OptiNose (OPTN)The Ledger GazetteIt is developing a genome editing platform based on clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technology. CRISPR uses a protein-ribonucleic acid (RNA) compl… Continue reading
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Immunotherapy highly effective in treatment of rare skin cancer, study finds
UCLA Newsroom To respond to anti-PD-1 immunotherapy, the cancer needs to be recognized as abnormal by the individual’s immune system, and the immune system cells need to be blocked by the interaction between PD-L1 and PD-1. In the study, the UCLA team hypothesized … Immunotherapy highly effective in treatment of rare skin cancerScience Daily Rare melanoma type highly responsive to immunotherapyInfosurhoy |
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5 science and tech predictions for 2018
NBCNews.com 5 science and tech predictions for 2018. Robots will get more emotional, cryptocurrencies will keep us guessing about their future and synthetic biology will make huge leaps. Here’s a look at what to expect this year in the world of science and … |