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A ‘social control’ system guarantees embryonic stem cell purity – EurekAlert (press release)

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2017-09-25 NEWS

EurekAlert (press release)

A ‘social control’ system guarantees embryonic stem cell purity
EurekAlert (press release)
What this discovery implies is that the pluripotent stem cell population is not pure, due to the appearance of primed cells with lower levels of Myc. Interestingly, when the cells divide, the daughter cells show a very strong tendency to conserve the

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2017-09-25 NEWS

OncLive

Duration of Upfront Immunotherapy for NSCLC
OncLive
Everett Vokes, MD: We’ve covered a lot of the key studies. There are a lot of unanswered questions, of course. We covered where PD-L1-negative or low expressers fall into this, and we’re waiting for more data. Another issue is the duration of therapy

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2017-09-25 NEWS

Multiple Sclerosis News Today

MS Gene Therapy Shows Good Results in Mice, but Human Trials Remain Distant
Multiple Sclerosis News Today
Researchers have taken the first steps towards the development of a gene therapy for multiple sclerosis — a treatment that boosted anti-inflammatory immune processes and reversed severe paralysis in mouse models of the disease. The University of
New gene therapy prevents MS and reverses paralysis in miceNew Atlas

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2017-09-25 NEWS

Chemistry Nobel predictions range from perovskites to Crispr
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As excitement builds once more, analysts and online commentators are making their predictions on who they think has a chance of securing science’s top gong, with suggestions ranging from Crispr to heterogeneous catalysis and perennial also-ran the …