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Five Ways to Get CRISPR into the Body – MIT Technology Review

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2017-09-22 NEWS

MIT Technology Review

Five Ways to Get CRISPR into the Body
MIT Technology Review
The gene-editing tool CRISPR has the potential to treat—and possibly cure—any number of diseases. But in order for CRISPR to work, it needs to find its way to the right part of the body. To do that, researchers are engineering some surprising

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2017-09-22 NEWS

AOL

Stem cell donor denied US entry 3 times as sister’s life hangs in the balance
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On February 14, 2017, Helen Huynh, a Vietnamese mother from Garden Grove, California, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of acute myeloid leukemia. Despite her dismally low chances of finding a stem cell donor through the system, the Huynh family …

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2017-09-22 NEWS

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Stem cell donor, recipient celebrate anniversary
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Error loading player: No playable sources found. Stem cell donor, recipient celebrate anniversary. A University of Iowa student is celebrating his four year stem cell anniversary. ABC World News report on ‘The Wave”. ABC’s anchor David Muir reports on

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2017-09-22 NEWS

Baltimore Sun

Orioles notes: Closer Zach Britton to receive stemcell injection in left knee Friday
Baltimore Sun
Orioles closer Zach Britton will receive a stemcell therapy injection in his left knee Friday to help the recovery of an MCL strain that has become more painful over the past few weeks. The injury, which will likely end Britton’s injury-hindered
Zach Britton receives stem cell injection, likely done for the seasonYahoo Sports

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2017-09-22 NEWS

CRISPR女神最新Nature重大发现:超精准的CRISPR-Cas9
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破解RNA靶向CRISPR酶Cas13a的作用机制). 基因编辑工具的快速发展令整个生物学研究领域疯狂,目前第三代DNA剪刀的主角是CRISPR,这是一种比其前身更快更便宜的工具。CRISPR-Cas9和CRISPR-Cpf1通过切除小的DNA序列,沉

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2017-09-22 NEWS

Science Daily

Unique gene therapy prevents, reverses multiple sclerosis in animal model
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“Using a clinically tested gene therapy platform, we are able to induce very specific regulatory T cells that target the self-reactive cells responsible for causing multiple sclerosis,” said Brad E. Hoffman, Ph.D., an associate professor in the
Gene therapy reverses symptoms, slows progression of MS in miceFierceBiotech
Science with Chris Smith: Gene therapy for MSABC Online

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2017-09-21 NEWS

Medical Xpress

Drug combination may improve impact of immunotherapy in head and neck cancer
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Checkpoint inhibitor-based immunotherapy has been shown to be very effective in recurrent and metastatic head and neck cancer but only in a minority of patients. University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers may have found a way to …
New Immune Cell May Predict Which Mesothelioma Patients Will Benefit From ImmunotherapyMesotheliomaHelp.org (blog)
The New Frontier in Cancer Treatment: Immunotherapy as a Natural Killer Cell TherapyDigital Journal
Immunotherapy Drugs Market Size and Forecast, 2016 – 2024satPRnews (press release)

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