News of Note—Gene therapy to repair hearts; one weapon for Zika and dengue; inhibiting a cancer-promoting enzyme – FierceBiotech
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News of Note—Gene therapy to repair hearts; one weapon for Zika and dengue; inhibiting a cancer-promoting enzyme
FierceBiotech Using a novel type of gene therapy, scientists at The Mount Sinai Hospital were able to improve heart function by up to 25% in a pig model of non-ischemic heart failure. The team used catheterization to administer a therapeutic gene delivery vector to … Gene therapy improved left ventricular and atrial function in heart failure by up to 25 percentMedical Xpress |
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Immunotherapy Plus RT for Metastatic Cancer: ‘Step Forward’
Medscape SAN DIEGO, California ― Among heavily pretreated cancer patients with solid tumors and metastases to either the lung or liver, the novel combination of the immunotherapy ipilimumab (Yervoy, Bristol-Myers Squibb) and radiation therapy provided rates of … Radiation+immunotherapy can slow tumor growth for some patients with metastatic NSCLCMedical Xpress Immune response prognostic for prostate cancer survival, recurrence and response to radiation therapyMarkets Insider Addition of radiation therapy to chemotherapy extends PFS in advanced non-small cell lung cancerHealio DOTmed.com –MedPage Today all 22 news articles » |
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Prostaglandin E1 inhibits leukemia stem cells
Medical Xpress One reason for this, explains Hai-Hui (Howard) Xue, MD, PhD, UI professor of microbiology and immunology, is that there are two kinds of tumor cells—bulk leukemia cells that can be killed by TKI drugs, and a subset of cells called leukemia stem cells … |
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Is CRISPR the favorite to win this year’s Nobel Prize? Maybe
Fast Company CRISPR (that’s short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is the coolest gene-editing technique around, and it is revolutionizing the field of biochemistry by making it faster, easier, cheaper, and more precise to delete … |
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Is CRISPR the favorite to win this year’s Nobel Prize? Maybe
Fast Company CRISPR (that’s short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is the coolest gene-editing technique around, and it is revolutionizing the field of biochemistry by making it faster, easier, cheaper, and more precise to delete … |