Here’s How Alcohol Can Damage DNA and Increase Cancer Risk – Live Science
ReliaWire |
Here’s How Alcohol Can Damage DNA and Increase Cancer Risk
Live Science 3 in the journal Nature, took a precise look at how exposure to alcohol, and the compounds that result when the body breaks down alcohol, cause damage to chromosomes in blood stem cells. These stem cells are crucial for replenishing cells lost … How Alcohol Mutates Stem Cells And Damages ChromosomesReliaWire Alcohol Found To Physically Break DNA In Stem Cells, Providing Potential Cause For CancerInfosurhoy Alcohol may cause cancer by damaging stem cell DNATheafricom Sin Chew Jit Poh –NIGERIAN TRIBUNE (press release) (blog) all 46 news articles » |
Greensburg Daily News |
Price of gene therapy for rare form of blindness: $850K
Greensburg Daily News The Associated PressIn this file photo, Dr. Albert Maguire, right, checks the eyes of Misa Kaabali, 8, at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Misa was 4-years-old when he received his gene therapy treatment. The first-of-its kind genetic treatment … Gene Therapy For Rare Forms Of Blindness Will Cost Nearly Half A Million Per EyeIFLScience |
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CAR T uses the body’s immune system to fight some cancers
Sunbury Daily Item CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T cells are an example of adoptive cell transfer, an exciting new type of cancer treatment with the potential to dramatically change the way we treat cancer. They enable the person’s own immune system to better attack … |
MIT Technology Review |
Uh Oh—CRISPR Might Not Work in People
MIT Technology Review A sampling of human blood has turned up a surprise: most people could be immune to one of the world’s biggest advances in genetic engineering. It’s in our blood: Scientists searched the blood of 22 newborns and 12 adults for antibodies to the two most … |