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New Stem Cell Breakthrough Could Decrease Aging and Prolong Lifespan – Wall Street Pit

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2017-07-30 NEWS

Wall Street Pit

New Stem Cell Breakthrough Could Decrease Aging and Prolong Lifespan
Wall Street Pit
First, they observed that the mice’s stem cells in the hypothalamus create new neurons during early life, but start losing them when they’re 10 to 11 months old, considered as middle-aged for the animals. Fast forward to them being two years old

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2017-07-30 NEWS

Gene therapy helps dogs with muscle dystrophy, humans next?
Jamaica Observer
PARIS, France (AFP) — Researchers have used gene editing to reverse symptoms in dogs of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) — a muscle-wasting and life-shortening disease that affects one in 5,000 baby boys. The dogs’ symptoms remained in check …

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2017-07-30 NEWS

Gene therapy helps dogs with muscle dystrophy, humans next?
Jamaica Observer
PARIS, France (AFP) — Researchers have used gene editing to reverse symptoms in dogs of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) — a muscle-wasting and life-shortening disease that affects one in 5,000 baby boys. The dogs’ symptoms remained in check …

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2017-07-30 NEWS

Reader’s Digest

Doctors Used This Teen’s Own Cells to Cure Her Leukemia—but They Almost Killed Her First
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One of these trials was the CART cell therapy, a new type of stem cell therapy with proven success in achieving remission for patients with leukemia. Doctors collect and then modify a patient’s own immune cells so that they recognize the cancer cells

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2017-07-29 NEWS

Baltimore Sun

University of Maryland scientists research gene linked to depression
Baltimore Sun
Lobo’s team was able to use gene therapy, a form of therapy in the early stages of being studied in humans, in the mice to boost the gene’s activity. The mice were exposed to larger, more aggressive mice, which usually causes depressive symptoms. But

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2017-07-29 NEWS

Singularity Hub

The Era of Human Gene Editing Is Here—What Happens Next Is Critical
Singularity Hub
But supporters of synthetic biology talk up huge potential long-term benefits. We could, they claim, potentially edit genes and build new ones to eradicate all hereditary diseases. With genetic alterations, we might be able to withstand anthrax attacks
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First Human Embryos Edited in USMIT Technology Review

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