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Two-part system turns stem cells into whatever you want – Penn State News

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2017-06-05 NEWS

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Two-part system turns stem cells into whatever you want
Penn State News
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Whether using embryonic or adult stem cells, coercing these master cells to convert to the desired target cell and reproduce flawlessly is difficult. Now an international team of researchers has a two-part system that can …

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A first: All respond to CAR–T therapy in a blood cancer study
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HICAGO — Doctors are reporting unprecedented success from a new cell and gene therapy for multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that’s on the rise. Although it’s early and the study is small — 35 people — every patient responded and all but two were in …
CAR T- Cell Therapy Could Be A Promising Treatment For Multiple Myeloma CancerScience World Report
Therapy Shows High Remission Rates in Multiple MyelomaCuretoday.com
Gene-Based Therapy That Reprograms Immune Cells Offers Hope For Multiple Myeloma CureTech Times
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CRISPR tech leads to new screening tool for Parkinson’s disease
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They are using CRISPR Cas9 (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) gene-editing technology. The system is one of research’s fastest growing biomedical techniques that allows scientists to make specific changes in the DNA of plants …

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