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Have you undergone immunotherapy for cancer? – The San Diego Union-Tribune

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2017-01-04 NEWS

Have you undergone immunotherapy for cancer?
The San Diego Union-Tribune
On Dec. 13, nurse Wendy Gordon removed the port from Madelyn Graf’s chest that was used to treat her cancer at Medical University Hospital Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston, South Carolina. Graf has been treated with the immunotherapy drug Opdivo.

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2017-01-03 NEWS

Hastings Star Gazette

Longtime Star Gazette reporter, editor dies suddenly
Hastings Star Gazette
“He pulled out a photo that showed five of the players standing under the basket, sort of in suspended animation waiting for the basketball that was sitting on the rim to either fall into the basket or drop off and go back into play,” Northard said. “I

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2017-01-03 NEWS

Reuters

Gene therapy is ready to become hereditary
Reuters
Two or more gene therapies soon could be approved in the United States. GlaxoSmithKline’s treatment for a rare and deadly immune disease probably will get the green light from regulators on the strength of the data. Smaller biotech Spark Therapeutics

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2017-01-03 NEWS

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Genetic Engineering and Crops: The CRISP…
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
One such crop is the CRISPR/Cas9-edited white button mushroom. The mushroom was engineered to resist browning by making 1–14 base pair deletions in a specific polyphenol oxidase gene and contains no foreign DNA integrated into the mushroom …

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2017-01-03 NEWS

ND Newswire

Prof. Brian Baker’s lab receives $4 million NIH grant for precision immunotherapy research
ND Newswire
has been studied for many years and has led to new approaches, including successful new drug therapies like the immunotherapy treatment former President Jimmy Carter received that has rendered his metastatic melanoma in remission. Understanding the …

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2017-01-03 NEWS

Nationwide Children’s names new leader of gene therapy program
Columbus Business First
Nationwide Children’s Hospital has named a new head of its Center for Gene Therapy – which so far as generated three spinoff companies trying to bring treatments to market– as the founding director focuses more on research and clinical trials. Dr