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Lymphocytes armed to kill: how customised cell engineering advances immunotherapy – Drug Target Review

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2018-04-04 NEWS

Drug Target Review

Lymphocytes armed to kill: how customised cell engineering advances immunotherapy
Drug Target Review
The immune system is now regarded as a powerful weapon in the war against cancer, and in the current era immune cells have become ‘living drugs’. This review article considers some of the key advances in immuno-oncology… The idea that the immune

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2018-04-04 NEWS

American Council on Science and Health

Crispr created foods are different than GMOs, it is wrong for anti-GMO activists to pretend they’re not.
American Council on Science and Health
Monsanto, perhaps to rebrand itself, and certainly to remain a leader in agricultural biotech has helped establish and fund Pairwise Plants a start-up using CRISPR-Cas9 technologies to modify seeds. They have given the new company money and their vice
Sweeter Strawberries With A Longer Shelf Life Could Be First Crispr OfferingsPerishableNews (press release)
Enough With the Talking AlreadyGenomeWeb

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2018-04-04 NEWS

How CRISPR works, explained in two minutes
STAT
We’ve traveled through time and space to bring back to life a hallowed surgical theater 3. We’ve followed sound waves 4 through our inner ears into our brains. Of all of these fantastic journeys, one of the hardest subjects to capture, visually, has

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2018-04-04 NEWS

European Biotechnology

Cellectis in offering of US$175m ADS following asset swap
European Biotechnology
Cellectis’ CAR T platform use engineered T-cells from a healthy donor for use in multiple patients. This is distinct from autologous approaches that use a patient’s own T-cells to target tumor cells. Since manufacturing of autologous CAR T cell