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In Focus: Editing Human Embryos With CRISPR Is Moving Ahead – Now’s The Time To Work Out The Ethics – ABS-CBN News

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2017-08-24 NEWS

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In Focus: Editing Human Embryos With CRISPR Is Moving Ahead – Now’s The Time To Work Out The Ethics
ABS-CBN News
In the last decade, CRISPR has been the primary tool for those seeking to modify genes – human and otherwise. Among other things, it has been used in experiments to make mosquitoes resistant to malaria, genetically modify plants to be resistant to

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2017-08-24 NEWS

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Searching in the immune checkpoint black box
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Similarly, loss of Ptpn2 also sensitized tumours to immunotherapy in vivo. Ptpn2-null B16 tumours were significantly more sensitive to PD1 inhibition — but did not show any growth disadvantage in the absence of T cell-mediated immunity or PD1 inhibition.

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2017-08-24 NEWS

Immunotherapy treatment shows promising results for glioblastoma
The Independent Florida Alligator
A patient’s immune cells are used to make tumor-specific T-cells, which can find a tumor and kill it through a process called immunotherapy, said Jianping Huang, director of clinical laboratory operations at the UF College of Medicine. She’s looking at