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Forbes |
Common Serious Side-Effect Of CAR T-Cell Therapy May Be Preventable
Forbes It has been a good month for CAR T-Cell therapies. On May 1st, the FDA handed out an approval to Novartis’s controversially-priced Kymriah for treating adults with certain types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Today, simultaneous discoveries from scientists … |
Herald Sun |
Cancer-killing CAR T-cell immunotherapy to become more accessible to patients
Herald Sun CAR T-cell therapy involves removing a patient’s immune cells, re-engineering them and infusing them back to create a “designer” immune system, usually as a last-ditch attempt to save their life. While still experimental, it has been able to “melt … |
India Times |
New Rice Variety Created By CRISPR Gene-Edit Technology Can Yield Up To 31% More Grain Per Crop
India Times According to an Engadget report, through the use of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing scientists have created a rice plant variety that produces 25 to 31 percent more grain per plant in real world tests — obviously, a lot more than what you’d otherwise get … Gene-edited rice plants could boost the world’s food supplyEngadget Can We Boost the World’s Food Supply with Gene-Edited Rice?Great Lakes Ledger |