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A Challenge Fit for CRISPR – Harvard Medical School

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2018-05-30 NEWS

Harvard Medical School

A Challenge Fit for CRISPR
Harvard Medical School
“It’s relatively feasible to change one gene in a pig, but to change many dozens—which it’s quite clear is the minimum here—benefits from CRISPR,” Church said. Xenotransplantation is “one of few” big challenges (among them, gene drives and de

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Fred Hutch News Service

Nanoparticles take immunotherapy in new direction
Fred Hutch News Service
Dr. Fan Zhang, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Matthias Stephan in Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s Clinical Research Division, is using nanoparticles to take immunotherapy in a new direction. The American Brain Tumor Association …

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The Scientist

First Stem Cell Transplant In Utero Successful
The Scientist
Pediatric surgeons at the University of California, San Francisco, have treated a second-trimester fetus with stem cells taken from her mother’s bone marrow. It is the first time a stem cell transplant has been successfully given to a patient in utero

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The Scientist

First Stem Cell Transplant In Utero Successful
The Scientist
Pediatric surgeons at the University of California, San Francisco, have treated a second-trimester fetus with stem cells taken from her mother’s bone marrow. It is the first time a stem cell transplant has been successfully given to a patient in utero

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2018-05-30 NEWS

Science Daily

CLL patient goes into remission thanks to single CAR T cell
Science Daily
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center say a patient treated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in 2013 went into remission because of a single CAR T cell and the cells it produced as it multiplied, and has stayed
A single cell spurs 5-year remission for Penn leukemia patientPhillyVoice.com

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