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Cell by Cell Changes in Xenotransplantation

Cellular dynamics in pig-to-human kidney xenotransplantation
“Early trials of porcine kidney xenotransplantation have been performed on brain-dead human recipients, but the [MORE]

Polygenic Risk Scores for 10 Diseases

Polygenic risk scores for 10 diseases
“From an initial list of 23 conditions, ten were selected for implementation based on PRS [MORE]

Priming Liquid Biopsies

Novel priming strategy boosts liquid biopsy sensitivity
“A team of researchers from MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard [MORE]

Bacterial System for Protein Delivery

Scientists find ‘ultracool’ tiny needle that could someday deliver gene editing therapies
“Gene editing has been limited to a few sites [MORE]

SHERLOCK for RNA Editing

CRISPR-Cas13 editing could offer new avenues for treatment
Scientists at the Broad Institute, who were involved in the technology of CRISPR [MORE]

Migraine, Heart Disease, and Hypertension: Three Ailments for the Price of One Gene

Broad scientists show how 1 bad gene takes a toll on 5 vascular diseases
Immunologists, among others, know that a single [MORE]

Single Cell Atlas for Defining Disease

Single Cell Atlas for Defining Disease
“Here, we [researchers at the Broad Institute and collaborators] applied four single-nucleus RNA sequencing methods [MORE]

Gene Editing for DNA Repair

Enhanced prime editing systems
“Toward the goal of enabling a wide range of sequence changes, we [a collaboration of Broad Institute, [MORE]

Another Gene Editing System

New Gene Editing Proteins Found Outside of CRISPR Systems
“Scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and [MORE]

Muscle-Tropic Capsids for Gene Transfer

Graphical abstract
“Here, we [scientists at the Broad Institute-MIT/Harvard] developed the DELIVER (directed evolution of AAV capsids leveraging in vivo expression [MORE]

SEND (Selective Endogenous eNcapsidation for Cellular Delivery)

mRNA gene therapy with a human protein
For a generation, gene therapy has relied on viral vectors to deliver a transgene.  [MORE]

World’s Largest Browsable Resource Linking Rare Protein-Coding Genetic Variants to Human Health and Disease

Genebass resource linking protein-coding variants to health and disease
“Genebass [sic] is a resource of exome-based association statistics, made available to [MORE]

A COVID-19 Biobank

COVID-19
Last February, when more than 100 Biogen representatives from around the world attended a conference, they unwittingly became a means [MORE]

Repurposing Drugs against Cancer

Repurposed medications
MAIN does not ordinarily carry drug-related news, but in this case, repurposing existing drugs to previously unknown targets really [MORE]