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Immunotherapy Patch Desensitizes Peanut Allergy
Medscape
ATLANTA — Children became progressively less sensitive to peanuts during a 3-year trial of immunotherapy delivered through a skin patch. There were few adverse effects from the patch, and the children were comfortable with wearing it. “This is …

Cancer Immunotherapy: CAR T as ‘Car Race’
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (blog)
Brad Loncar, CEO of Loncar Investments, weighs in on recent developments in the scramble to develop CAR T cancer immunotherapies. How significant a setback is Juno Therapeutics’ halting development of JCAR015? How could some second-tier …

Immunotherapy trial cures Tasmanian devils of DFTD
Science Daily
Professor Greg Woods, the leader of the DFTD team at Menzies, said scientists used immunotherapy on devils with a golf-ball sized tumours and then observed the tumours gradually shrinking and disappearing over three months. “This is almost a Eureka …
Breakthrough offers hope for Tasmanian devil cancer cureBBC News
Tasmanian devils helped to fight off facial tumour disease with live …ABC Online
Cure hope for Tasmanian devils plagued by facial tumoursThe Mercury
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Cancer immunotherapy: Revived T cells still need fuel
Medical Xpress
To assess the importance of those findings for cancer immunotherapy, the researchers teamed up with physicians from Winship Cancer Institute, led by Winship’s deputy director Suresh Ramalingam, MD, to analyze samples from lung cancer patients being …

A big step towards an artificial yeast genome
The Economist
BIOLOGY’S biggest division is not between plants and animals, nor even between multicellular and single-celled creatures. … The chefs who have devised these recipes are members of a consortium called the Synthetic Yeast Genome Project (Sc2.0). In …
Biology team makes breakthrough in synthetic yeast projectPhys.Org
Scientists create ‘designer yeast’ in major step toward synthetic lifeWashington Post
Complex synthetic life moves closer with designer yeast genomeRaw Story
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Scientists create ‘designer yeast’ in major step toward synthetic life
Washington Post
“A lot of synthetic biology is motivated by this idea that … you only understand something when you can build it,” said Johns Hopkins computational biologist Joel Bader, one of the leaders of the project. “Well, now we know enough about biological …
A big step towards an artificial yeast genomeThe Economist
Biology team makes breakthrough in synthetic yeast projectPhys.Org
Complex synthetic life moves closer with designer yeast genomeReuters
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Biology team makes breakthrough in synthetic yeast project
Phys.Org
A selection of them went on to continue their education in the synthetic biology field by undertaking Ph.D programs in China, the US, Europe and other countries. “The goal of the BAG course at TJU is to train the next generation of synthetic biologists …
A big step towards an artificial yeast genomeThe Economist
Scientists Just Took a Major Step Toward the First Complex Artificial LifeGizmodo
Scientists create ‘designer yeast’ in major step toward synthetic lifeWashington Post
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The intestine has a reservoir of stem cells that are resistant to chemotherapy
Phys.Org
The researchers describe them as a reservoir of stem cells—it is estimated that there is one quiescent cell for every 10 active intestinal stem cells. In healthy conditions, these cells have no apparent relevant function. However, they are important …

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