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Interferon-beta producing stem cell-derived immune cell therapy on liver cancer – Science Daily

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Interferon-beta producing stem cell-derived immune cell therapy on liver cancer
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Hoping to improve primary liver cancer including HCC and metastatic liver cancer therapies, researchers from Japan began studying induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell-derived immune cells that produced the protein interferon-? (IFN-β). IFN-β exhibits …

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No longer waiting idly: Parents of patients establishing gene therapy programs
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In recent years, gene therapies have become safer and better at hitting their intended targets in the body, leading to a handful of remarkable cures in clinical trials. Advocates for rare-disease patients—especially determined parents—are

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Charpentier, UC Berkeley, U Vienna to Be Granted European CRISPR Patent
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
The European Patent Office has announced an “intention to grant a patent” broadly covering CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) technology to Emmanuelle Charpentier, Ph.D., a director at the Max-Planck Institute in Berlin, …

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