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Could Immunotherapy Be Used to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance? – Contagionlive.com

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2017-06-18 NEWS

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Could Immunotherapy Be Used to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance?
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Lauri A. Hicks, DO, Director, Office of Antibiotic Stewardship, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses the use of immunotherapy in tackling antibiotic resistance. Interview Transcript (slightly modified for readability): “I think this is

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2017-06-18 NEWS

VIDEO: CD19–directed CAR T cells shows promise in advanced lymphomas
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CHICAGO — Treatment with JCAR017 showed promise in patients with heavily pretreated relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, according to the phase 1 TRANSCEND NHL trial presented at the ASCO Annual Meeting. Jeremy Slade …

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2017-06-18 NEWS

The Times of Israel

Study says some stem cells dangerous for heart patients
The Times of Israel
“We concluded that stem cells used in cardiac therapy should be drawn from healthy donors or be better genetically engineered for the patient,” said lead researcher Jonathan Leor of the university’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Sheba Medical Center.
Hair dyes, relaxers tied to raised breast cancer riskThe Nation

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2017-06-17 NEWS

The Guardian

A Crack in Creation review – Jennifer Doudna, Crispr and a great scientific breakthrough
The Guardian
It began with the kind of research the Trump administration wants to unfund: fiddling about with tiny obscure creatures. And there had been US Republican hostility to science before Trump, of course, when Sarah Palin objected to federal funding of

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