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There’s Healing Power in the Secret Electrical Language of Our Cells – Singularity Hub

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2017-12-27 NEWS

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There’s Healing Power in the Secret Electrical Language of Our Cells
Singularity Hub
The third application is going to be cancer. We’ve already had several interesting sets of papers published by our lab showing that you can reprogram tumors by managing the bioelectrics appropriately. The last application is synthetic biology. Right

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To Root Out Cancer Immunotherapies Dig Deeper
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Immunotherapy has done more than just scratch beneath the surface of cancer. In recent years, immunotherapy has started to undermine melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, head and neck cancers, and Hodgkin’s lymphoma

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2017-12-27 NEWS

Phys.Org

Scientists engineer microbes to form ‘memories’ of their environment
Phys.Org
“We’re hoping this will help foster collaboration between synthetic biologists and microbiologists,” said Emily Fulk, a graduate student at Rice University in Texas and who presented her preliminary work at the 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall

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2017-12-27 NEWS

The Atlantic

Is a ‘Cure’ for Blindness Worth $1 Million?
The Atlantic
Cervenka is not opposed to gene therapy to treat blindness, but she wanted to emphasize the trade-offs. Aside from the potential seven-figure price tag, the therapy comes with risks from injecting into the eyeball, plus it takes time to travel to a