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Stem cell therapy gives hope to patients with chronic illness – WDAM-TV

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2017-06-30 NEWS

Stem cell therapy gives hope to patients with chronic illness
WDAM-TV
HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) -. A new, innovative stem cell therapy happening in a Hattiesburg clinic is giving hope to patients with chronic inflammatory conditions. Todd Louviere has had Multiple Sclerosis for more than 20 years. “When it was at it’s worst …

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2017-06-29 NEWS

Scicasts (press release) (blog)

Study Reveals Key Steps in CRISPR-Cas3 Function at Near-Atomic Resolution
Scicasts (press release) (blog)
This is an cryo-electron microscope image of CRISPR in a full ‘R-loop’ conformation. DNA (orange and red) is unwound and compared to CRISPR RNA (blue), to determine if the target DNA should be cut by the Cas3 enzyme.Image: Liao lab/Harvard Medical …

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2017-06-29 NEWS

Science Daily

Novel molecular dynamics captures atomic-level detail of CRISPR-Cas9 activity
Science Daily
“Although the CRISPR-Cas9 system is rapidly revolutionizing life sciences toward a facile genome editing technology, structural and mechanistic details underlying its function have remained unknown,” said Giulia Palermo, a postdoctoral scholar with the …

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2017-06-29 NEWS

Nightstar Raises $45 Million to Fund Development of Gene Therapies for Blinding Retinal Diseases
Business Wire (press release)
BOSTON & LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NightstaRx Limited (“Nightstar”), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company developing gene therapies for inherited retinal diseases, today announced the completion of a $45 million Series C financing transaction.

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