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Newly Designed Viral Vectors Could Lead to Improved Gene Therapies – Bioscience Technology

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2017-06-16 NEWS

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Newly Designed Viral Vectors Could Lead to Improved Gene Therapies
Bioscience Technology
For many patients, participating in gene therapy clinical trials isn’t an option because their immune system recognizes and fights the helpful virus used for treatment. Now, University of Florida Health and University of North Carolina researchers have

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2017-06-16 NEWS

Thermo Fisher Launches CRISPR and TALEN Genome-Editing Workshops
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (press release)
Thermo Fisher Scientific has launched a program of four-day lecture-based and hands-on CRISPR (clustered regulatory interspaced short palindromic repeats) and TALEN (transcription activator-like effector nuclease) genome editing workshops at its global …

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2017-06-16 NEWS

Thermo Fisher Launches CRISPR and TALEN Genome-Editing Workshops
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (press release)
Thermo Fisher Scientific has launched a program of four-day lecture-based and hands-on CRISPR (clustered regulatory interspaced short palindromic repeats) and TALEN (transcription activator-like effector nuclease) genome editing workshops at its global …

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2017-06-16 NEWS

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Distant brain regions selectively recruit stem cells
EurekAlert (press release)
Stem cells persist in the adult mammalian brain and generate new neurons throughout life. A research group at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel reports in the current issue of “Science” that long-distance brain connections can target discrete

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2017-06-16 NEWS

Mesothelioma Research News

TCR²’s Engineered Immune TCells Outperform More Common Class of Cells Against Mesothelioma, Studies Show
Mesothelioma Research News
A key approach to treating cancer these days is engineering immune T-cells to produce receptors on their surfaces that recognize cancer, so that the T-cells can attack it. One engineering approach is creating CAR T-cells, with CAR standing for the