Interview: AZ’s immunotherapy gamble starts to pay off – pharmaphorum
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Interview: AZ’s immunotherapy gamble starts to pay off
pharmaphorum Robert Iannone, AstraZeneca’s head of immune-oncology drug development talks to pharmaphorum about the unpredictable immunotherapy market, the PACIFIC trial success, and further changes ahead. Fortunes are very changeable in the … |
Bustle |
Who Is Helen Huynh? The Leukemia Patient’s Stem Cell Donor Is Being Denied A Visa
Bustle Doctors say a stem cell transplant from Huynh’s youngest sister in Vietnam could give her two to five years to live, said Huynh’s daughter Yvonne Aivan Murray to NBC. Unfortunately, immigration officials denied a U.S. visa to the Vietnamese stem cell … |
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Targeting strategies of adenovirus‑mediated gene therapy and virotherapy for prostate cancer (Review).
UroToday Additionally, there is a lack of effective therapies for PCa at advanced stages. Novel treatment strategies such as adenovirus‑mediated gene therapy and virotherapy involve the expression of a specific therapeutic gene to induce death in cancer cells … |
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New center to advance biology research
Yale Daily News (blog) Thanks to a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation, an interdisciplinary team of Yale researchers will soon make headway on the next frontier of synthetic biology — re-engineering cells to produce novel synthetic polymers. The NSF … |
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Alcoholism Gene Therapy Shows Promise
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Scientists in North and South America have developed a form of gene therapy that could feasibly help to treat alcoholism by causing unpleasant physical side effects in individuals who imbibe. The approach harnesses a short hairpin RNA (shRNA), which is … |
Pinedale Roundup |
Saturday U brings the lecture room to Pinedale
Pinedale Roundup McCracken-Flesher’s lecture, “Writing the Way West: Authors in America,” was preceded by a talk on how synthetic biology will change medicine by Mark Gomelsky, a molecular biology professor. And it was followed by anthropology professor Robert Kelly’s … |
MIT Technology Review |
The Easiest Place to Use CRISPR Might Be in Your Ear
MIT Technology Review The usual way might be to load the gene-editing instructions into billions of viruses and use those to infect a person’s cells. But some scientists are experimenting with delivery tricks that could make treatments easier to pull off (see “Five Ways to … |