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9 Amazing Things We’ve Achieved in 2017 With Help From CRISPR – ScienceAlert

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2017-07-21 NEWS

Science News Magazine

9 Amazing Things We’ve Achieved in 2017 With Help From CRISPR
ScienceAlert
CRISPR has been used to successfully target the ‘command centre’ of cancer – the hybrid fusion genes that often trigger abnormal tumour growths. By cutting and pasting, researchers created a cancer-busting gene that actually shrunk tumours in mice …
Resistance to CRISPR gene drives may arise easilyScience News Magazine
Researchers Design, Construct Genome-Wide Sequence-Verified Arrayed CRISPR LibraryGenomeWeb
Library of CRISPR targeting sequences increases power of the gene-editing methodEurekAlert (press release)
Technology Networks –Digital Journal –Xinhua
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2017-07-21 NEWS

Science News Magazine

9 Amazing Things We’ve Achieved in 2017 With Help From CRISPR
ScienceAlert
CRISPR has been used to successfully target the ‘command centre’ of cancer – the hybrid fusion genes that often trigger abnormal tumour growths. By cutting and pasting, researchers created a cancer-busting gene that actually shrunk tumours in mice …
Resistance to CRISPR gene drives may arise easilyScience News Magazine
Researchers Design, Construct Genome-Wide Sequence-Verified …GenomeWeb
Library of CRISPR targeting sequences increases power of the gene …EurekAlert (press release)
Xinhua –The Economist –Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
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SillaJen : China’s FDA Oks To Commence Phase 3 Trial For Oncolytic Immunotherapy
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(RTTNews.com) – SillaJen, Inc. and Lee’s Pharmaceutical Holdings Ltd. announced approval by the China Food and Drug Administration to conduct a Phase 3 clinical trial for advanced liver cancer using its oncolytic immunotherapy called Pexa-Vec (formerly …

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SillaJen : China’s FDA Oks To Commence Phase 3 Trial For Oncolytic Immunotherapy
Nasdaq
(RTTNews.com) – SillaJen, Inc. and Lee’s Pharmaceutical Holdings Ltd. announced approval by the China Food and Drug Administration to conduct a Phase 3 clinical trial for advanced liver cancer using its oncolytic immunotherapy called Pexa-Vec (formerly …

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2017-07-21 NEWS

CIRM Approves $5.8 Million Grant for CART Therapy That Targets Cancer Stem Cells
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Newswise — The Independent Citizens Oversight Committee of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) today unanimously approved a $5.8 million award to University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers to develop a …

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PBS NewsHour

Will we be wiped out by machine overlords? Maybe we need a game plan now
PBS NewsHour
NICK BOSTROM: The greatest existential risks arise from certain anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make, in particular, machine superintelligence, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology, fundamentally because we don’t have the ability

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2017-07-21 NEWS

Sacramento Bee

California stem cell agency researching cures for brain cancer afflicting McCain
Sacramento Bee
The aggressive brain cancer that now afflicts U.S. Sen. John McCain has long been a target of California’s $3 billion stem cell agency. During its 12-year life span, the agency, formally known as the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, or

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Sacramento Bee

California stem cell agency researching cures for brain cancer afflicting McCain
Sacramento Bee
The aggressive brain cancer that now afflicts U.S. Sen. John McCain has long been a target of California’s $3 billion stem cell agency. During its 12-year life span, the agency, formally known as the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, or

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