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Toronto scientists isolate the ‘anti-CRISPR’ to shut off uncontrollable gene editing – National Post

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2017-01-05 NEWS

National Post

Toronto scientists isolate the ‘anti-CRISPR‘ to shut off uncontrollable gene editing
National Post
Discovered in the 1990s from studies on bacteria, with most progress in the last few years, CRISPR is the name for repeating bits of DNA that evolved as a kind of genetic immune system. By programming it in the lab and delivering it to a cell, CRISPR
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Biotech firms form patent alliance over interference proceeding against CRISPR patent applicationIPWatchdog.com
News New and More Precise CRISPR/Cas9 Techniq…Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
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2017-01-05 NEWS

Prostate Cancer News Today

Results of Phase 3 Study of Immunotherapy Prostvac Due at Year’s End
Prostate Cancer News Today
Bavarian Nordic announced that full data from its Phase 3 study assessing the effectiveness of its immunotherapy candidate, Prostvac, to improve survival in people with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) is now expected late in

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2017-01-05 NEWS

Genetic Literacy Project

Biotech industry focuses on CRISPR, new gene breeding techniques to break regulatory logjam
Genetic Literacy Project
Commodity groups, farm organizations and others considered the summer’s GMO labeling law a prudent compromise for what had become a divisive issue. How the United States Department of Agriculture decides to lay out these new labeling rules over the …

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2017-01-05 NEWS

Cancers evade immunotherapy by ‘discarding the evidence’ of tumor-specific mutations
EurekAlert (press release)
Results of an initial study of tumors from patients with lung cancer or head and neck cancer suggest that the widespread acquired resistance to immunotherapy drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors may be due to the elimination of certain genetic

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2017-01-05 NEWS

ASSASSIN’S CREED (PG-13)
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A space ship on automatic pilot, heading on a 120-year journey toward a distant colonized planet, is the setting for a creepy courtship that evolves between two of the passengers who have sprung out of their states of suspended animation. But what

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