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Gene and Cell Therapy
With the goal of treating and curing disease, gene and cell therapy provide treatment by means of altering a person's genetic code and transferring live cells to improve symptoms and reduce levels of disease-causing proteins.
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JAN 08, 2018Cancer
Andy Lindsay, a 61-year-old from Massachusetts, achieved his goal of climbing the Mera Peak in Nepal in October 2017.Written By: Julia TraversJAN 07, 2018Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have been studying blood cell development after transplantation, but new work has assessed them in their nat ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 06, 2018Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have made a discovery about the fusion of adjacent genes that is leading to new cancer therapeutics.Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 04, 2018Immunology
How does a West African monkey species called sooty mangabeys resist SIV, the “monkey version” of HIV, and p ...Written By: Kara MarkerJAN 02, 2018Cancer
In December 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new genomic profiling test - the second in two month ...Written By: Julia TraversDEC 25, 2017Genetics & Genomics
Stem cells start out as a kind of blank slate; now scientists have found that heart cells can be generated from stem cel ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 21, 2017Immunology
Plucking monocytes out of the human bloodstream is one approach to creating personalized cancer treatments, but this imm ...Written By: Kara MarkerDEC 19, 2017Genetics & Genomics
The field of personalized medicine studies how individual differences in genes impact drug efficacy.Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 19, 2017Cancer
One of the biggest surprise findings from the completion of the Human Genome Project was that only 1.5 percent of our ge ...DEC 17, 2017Drug Discovery & Development
Brief overview of epigenetic therapeuticsWritten By: Courtney SchaalDEC 16, 2017Genetics & Genomics
Some diseases are directly related to dysfunction in the immune system, like type 1 diabetes. Scientists want to use rep ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 11, 2017Genetics & Genomics
There is a genetic disorder affecting the immune system so severely that its patients often require protective isolation ...Written By: Kara MarkerDEC 10, 2017Drug Discovery & Development
AAV viral vector gene delivery will soon be approved for FDA approval, and will likely just be the first of many proving ...Written By: Courtney SchaalDEC 07, 2017Genetics & Genomics
CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology has been hailed as revolutionary, but the technique came with some caveats. Now, it ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 07, 2017Chemistry & Physics
This past Sunday marked the seventy-five anniversary of the day when the world’s first man-made self-sustainable c ...Written By: Daniel DuanDEC 05, 2017Cancer
Virtually every type of cancer has metastatic potential – that is, the tumor cells can leave its original site and ...DEC 05, 2017Health & Medicine
Migraine headaches are a significant health problem for millions of people. In the United States, estimates put the numb ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimDEC 04, 2017Drug Discovery & Development
What is drug discovery and what does it entailWritten By: Courtney SchaalNOV 29, 2017Drug Discovery & Development
New evidence that chromatin rearranges in a reversible manner in drug resistant cancer cellsWritten By: Courtney SchaalNOV 24, 2017Genetics & Genomics
Children that suffer from epidermolysis bullosa, sometimes called butterfly children because of their fragile skin, face ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 20, 2017Genetics & Genomics
CRISPR gene editing is being attempted for the first time in an adult; the patient has a disease called Hunter Syndrome.Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 18, 2017Drug Discovery & Development
Scientists in Europe Use Genetically Modified Patient Stem Cells to Graft Whole Body SkinWritten By: Courtney SchaalNOV 11, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
A boy whose extremely fragile skin, like that of a butterfly, has been saved by an experimental therapy. The first-of-it ...NOV 10, 2017Cancer
By carefully observing how DNA is packaged inside of cancer cells, scientists have developed a therapy that they say can ...
JAN 08, 2018
Cancer
Andy Lindsay, a 61-year-old from Massachusetts, achieved his goal of climbing the Mera Peak in Nepal in October 2017.
Written By:
Julia Travers
JAN 07, 2018
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have been studying blood cell development after transplantation, but new work has assessed them in their nat
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 06, 2018
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have made a discovery about the fusion of adjacent genes that is leading to new cancer therapeutics.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 04, 2018
Immunology
How does a West African monkey species called sooty mangabeys resist SIV, the “monkey version” of HIV, and p
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 02, 2018
Cancer
In December 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new genomic profiling test - the second in two month
...
Written By:
Julia Travers
DEC 25, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
Stem cells start out as a kind of blank slate; now scientists have found that heart cells can be generated from stem cel
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 21, 2017
Immunology
Plucking monocytes out of the human bloodstream is one approach to creating personalized cancer treatments, but this imm
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 19, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
The field of personalized medicine studies how individual differences in genes impact drug efficacy.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 19, 2017
Cancer
One of the biggest surprise findings from the completion of the Human Genome Project was that only 1.5 percent of our ge
...
DEC 17, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
Brief overview of epigenetic therapeutics
Written By:
Courtney Schaal
DEC 16, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
Some diseases are directly related to dysfunction in the immune system, like type 1 diabetes. Scientists want to use rep
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 11, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
There is a genetic disorder affecting the immune system so severely that its patients often require protective isolation
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 10, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
AAV viral vector gene delivery will soon be approved for FDA approval, and will likely just be the first of many proving
...
Written By:
Courtney Schaal
DEC 07, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology has been hailed as revolutionary, but the technique came with some caveats. Now, it
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 07, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
This past Sunday marked the seventy-five anniversary of the day when the world’s first man-made self-sustainable c
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
DEC 05, 2017
Cancer
Virtually every type of cancer has metastatic potential – that is, the tumor cells can leave its original site and
...
DEC 05, 2017
Health & Medicine
Migraine headaches are a significant health problem for millions of people. In the United States, estimates put the numb
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 04, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
What is drug discovery and what does it entail
Written By:
Courtney Schaal
NOV 29, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
New evidence that chromatin rearranges in a reversible manner in drug resistant cancer cells
Written By:
Courtney Schaal
NOV 24, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
Children that suffer from epidermolysis bullosa, sometimes called butterfly children because of their fragile skin, face
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 20, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
CRISPR gene editing is being attempted for the first time in an adult; the patient has a disease called Hunter Syndrome.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 18, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
Scientists in Europe Use Genetically Modified Patient Stem Cells to Graft Whole Body Skin
Written By:
Courtney Schaal
NOV 11, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
A boy whose extremely fragile skin, like that of a butterfly, has been saved by an experimental therapy. The first-of-it
...
NOV 10, 2017
Cancer
By carefully observing how DNA is packaged inside of cancer cells, scientists have developed a therapy that they say can
...