Stem Cell Transplant Program Celebrates First Year – Newswise (press release)
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Stem Cell Transplant Program Celebrates First Year
Newswise (press release) Newswise — The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center began helping New Mexicans with blood disorders a little more than one year ago. Since then, more than 30 New Mexicans have received treatment. Program Director Matthew Fero, … Research Study Offers Insights on Future of Bone Marrow Transplant MarketsatPRnews (press release) |
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TIME’s ‘miracle cure’ coverage reflects common problems with cancer stories
HealthNewsReview.org The treatment, CAR T-cell therapy, takes immune cells from patients, genetically arms them with better search-and-destroy weaponry, and puts them back into the patient to attack circulating cancer cells. CAR T-cell therapy is still experimental … |
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TIME’s ‘miracle cure’ coverage reflects common problems with cancer stories
HealthNewsReview.org The treatment, CAR T-cell therapy, takes immune cells from patients, genetically arms them with better search-and-destroy weaponry, and puts them back into the patient to attack circulating cancer cells. CAR T-cell therapy is still experimental … |
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UniQure Plans Tests That Could Lead to Clinical Trial of AMT-130 Gene Therapy for Huntington’s
Huntington’s Disease News Dutch pharmaceutical company uniQure says it plans to conduct preclinical studies leading to clinical testing of a gene therapy in patients with Huntington’s disease. The company is developing AMT-130, an experimental therapy that aims to block … |
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New Version of CRISPR Corrects RNA Defects Linked to Huntington’s, ALS
Technology Networks Until recently, the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technique could only be used to manipulate DNA. In a 2016 study, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers repurposed the technique to track RNA in live cells in a method called … Gene editing technique could treat ALS and Huntington’s diseaseEngadget |
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Pigs could save human lives soon thanks to CRISPR
AGDAILY Using CRISPR genome-editing technology, researchers at Cambridge, Massachusetts-based eGenesis have raised the first litter of piglets, free of PERVs — Active Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus. The fear of transmitting PERVs to humans was one of the … |
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Does this chip revolutionize gene therapy?
Deutsche Welle Gene-edited embryo study: A ‘milestone’ – or a route toward ‘genetic upgrades’? 02.08.2017. Researchers in the US have used an experimental gene-editing technique to correct a mutation in dozens of embryos. Some hailed the development as illuminating … |
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Does this chip revolutionize gene therapy?
Deutsche Welle Gene-edited embryo study: A ‘milestone’ – or a route toward ‘genetic upgrades’? 02.08.2017. Researchers in the US have used an experimental gene-editing technique to correct a mutation in dozens of embryos. Some hailed the development as illuminating … |