UW Team Combines CRISPR With Duplex Sequencing to Detect Low-Frequency MutationsGenomeWebSAN FRANCISCO (GenomeWeb) – Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a targeted sequencing method that couples the CRISPR/Cas9 system for targe… Continue reading
Melanoma Exomes Implicate Antigen-Related Gene Changes in Immunotherapy ResistanceGenomeWebNEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A Massachusetts General Hospital-led team has found evidence of recurrent antigen presentation gene changes in melanoma tumors that fail t… Continue reading
Futurism |
CRISPR Can Now Be Used to Edit Individual Bases
Futurism CRISPR-Cas9 has been widely heralded as one of the most important scientific developments of recent years, thanks to its capacity to make edits to the human genome. Now, a more precise version of the tool has been developed by a team of scientists from … Gene-editing tool CRISPR can now manipulate more types of …The Verge CRISPR 2.0 Is Here, and It’s Way More Precise – MIT Technology …MIT Technology Review New CRISPR version could make precision medicine even more preciseHealthcare IT News Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News –Engadget –WIRED –Science all 80 news articles » |
Rare Disease Report (blog) |
BioMarins Gene Therapy for Hemophilia A Continues to Impress
Rare Disease Report (blog) FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to Biomarin’s gene therapy for hemophilia A, valoctocogene roxaparvovec (BMN 270). BioMarin Announces Third Quarter 2017 Financial ResultsPR Newswire (press release) |
KABC-TV |
New CAR–T cell therapy offers hope to lymphoma patients
KABC-TV Forman told Fata about new research they were doing at City of Hope, called CAR–T cell therapy. Doctors harvested his T cells, ramped them up, then sent them back into his body. “Their sole purpose, the way we’ve engineered them, is to go into the body … |
Express.co.uk |
Dementia CURE? UK charity ‘welcomes’ stem cell treatment research
Express.co.uk Its comments came after scientists revealed stem cells were needed to replace neurones that have been lost in dementia patients. The cells – which can be moulded by scientists to become any type of cell in the body – also help to revitalise stressed … |