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Fighting Parkinson’s with deep sea shrimp & CRISPR – Wink News

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2018-03-22 NEWS

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Fighting Parkinson’s with deep sea shrimp & CRISPR
Wink News
Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disease that causes tremors, muscle rigidity and restricted mobility. There is no cure, but the search is on for new drugs that can halt the disease in its tracks. Bioengineers in Central Florida are the first in

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This DNA-Based Attack Against Cancer May Just Work
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Locke was studying an experimental treatment called chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (CAR T-cell therapy for short), in which a patient’s own immune-system cells are genetically enhanced to fight cancer. Padilla first had his T-cells harvested

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2018-03-22 NEWS

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Could Immunotherapy Lead the Way to Fighting Cancer?
Smithsonian
Finally, Miss Vanessa’s husband stumbled onto a website for a clinical trial that seemed legit, something underway at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, just down the road from their home. This new treatment option
Kineta Immuno-Oncology to Present at Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology: Cancer ImmunotherapyPR Newswire (press release)
Immuno-oncology ‘gel’ could prevent tumor recurrence and spreadFierceBiotech

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