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Jon Spaihts ’91: The ‘Go-To Guy for Sci-Fi’ – Princeton Alumni Weekly

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2017-02-02 NEWS

Princeton Alumni Weekly

Jon Spaihts ’91: The ‘Go-To Guy for Sci-Fi’
Princeton Alumni Weekly
Spaihts’ Passengers, released in December, takes place aboard a spaceship bound for a colony planet with 5,000 people in suspended animation. Unexpectedly, two of the passengers (played by Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence) wake up 90 years early …

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‘A big step’: UNC researchers use stem cells to treat brain cancer
News & Observer
Last year, the UNC team led by Shawn Hingtgen, an assistant professor in the Eshelman School of Pharmacy and member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, used the technology to convert mouse skin cells to stem cells that could home in on …
Model Captures ‘Spontaneous’ Cell Transition to Metastasis in Prostate Cancer StudyProstate Cancer News Today
Future of Global Circulating Tumor Cells and Cancer Stem Cells Market: 2016 – 2024NewsMaker (press release)

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Protagen, NCI Partner to Identify Cancer Immunotherapy Biomarkers
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Under the terms of their material transfer agreement, the collaborators will use Protagen’s SeroTag platform — which measures autoantibody levels for thousands of antigens simultaneously — to identify biomarkers that predict immunotherapy

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A biohacker wants to make a genetic upgrade to Dalmatians — but the FDA isn’t on board just yet
Business Insider
David Ishee is a Mississippi kennel operator with a passion for dogs and a plan to improve them using a gene-editing technology called CRISPR from a modest laboratory he’s built in a plywood shed. Sound unlikely? It’s serious enough that the U.S. Food

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2017 Douglas County Spelling Bee: Word List 10
NRToday.com
samphire — A fleshy European coastal plant that is sometimes pickled. “Daphne ordered the salad of samphire and other greens.” catalepsy — A condition of suspended animation and loss of voluntary motion associated with hysteria and schizophrenia.

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