Fruit fly stem cells offer glimpse of ‘perpetual life’ – Futurity: Research News
Futurity: Research News |
Fruit fly stem cells offer glimpse of ‘perpetual life’
Futurity: Research News Researchers have discovered that sperm-producing fruit fly stem cells use a genetic trick to stay perpetually young across generations. Certain sections of the fruit fly genome get shorter with age, but, remarkably, some reproductive cells can repair … |
Pocono Record |
Immunotherapy boosts the body’s natural defense against cancer …
Pocono Record Your body’s immune system has the ability to differentiate between “normal” cells and those that are “foreign” such as bacteria and virus. This ability to discriminate allows your immune system to destroy foreign invaders but not healthy cells. Your … |
UCLA Newsroom |
For one early adopter, CAR T therapy means 18 months cancer-free and counting
UCLA Newsroom He would become one of the first UCLA Health patients to receive CAR T therapy. When nothing else worked, the treatment beat back cancer and filled his life with new hope. “Years ago, while doing my own reading after my diagnosis, I learned about CAR T … Cancer Researcher’s Life Saved by CAR–T TreatmentNewswise (press release) |
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Unexpected evolutionary benefit to phages imparted by bacterial CRISPR-Cas9
Science Advances Bacteria and bacteriophages arm themselves with various defensive and counterdefensive mechanisms to protect their own genome and degrade the other’s. CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat)–Cas (CRISPR-associated) is an … Study Suggests CRISPR Gives Evolutionary Edge to Phages Escaping Bacterial DefenseGenomeWeb |