POSTS TAGGED AS Genetic Engineering

Building Better Lab Rats

Wistar Rat
Rats do more work in medical research than mice, but mice get all the glamour. (50% more scientific publications [MORE]

Semi-Automated Production of Hematopoietic Stem Cells

CliniMACS
Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle have developed a semi-automated process for separating and expanding hematopoietic stem [MORE]

A New Twist for Probiotics: Drug Delivery

SalmonellaNIAID
This is a story about an idea that obviously is not ready for prime time, but is fascinating nonetheless. Systems [MORE]

Viral Melanoma Therapy

T-VEC
The search for oncolytic viruses which can destroy malignant tumors directly or indirectly has been going on for over a [MORE]

A New and Improved CRISPR

CRISPR Cas9
Those in the know must be saying “CRISPR-Cas9” is “so yesterday.” This remarkable gene editing technology has shot like [MORE]

Immunotherapy for ALL

Healthy Human T Cell
At the beginning of the 20th century, British physician Sir Almoth Wright predicted that the doctor of [MORE]

Microbiome Engineering Against Obesity

 
Human Microbiome
Here’s an interesting thought: genetically engineer strains of bacteria that are not competitive with normal gut microbiota, but uniquely [MORE]

Gene Therapy that Prevents HIV/AIDS

Modifiying T Cells
Gene therapists at the University of Pennsylvania have used a gene editing technique (zinc finger technology) to induce [MORE]

A Simple Method for Inducing Pluripotent Stem Cells

Embryonic Stem Cells
In what may be the story of the year, if not of the century, researchers at Japan’s RIKEN [MORE]

iRNA’s to Treat Scarring

iRNA
In 1998, Craig Mello and Andrew Fire published their research on small snippets of RNA which they believed had therapeutic [MORE]

Stem Cell Trial for Stroke

Though the patient base is small (only a half dozen so far) neuroscientists at the University of Glasgow in [MORE]

Genetic Engineering: Eliminating the Stop Codon

George Church, PhD
Harvard’s George Church, Farren Isaacs, and colleagues have used a technique called “multiplex automated genome engineering” to [MORE]

H. Pylori as an Oral Vaccine Delivery Platform

Barry Marshall
In 2005, Barry Marshall and his collaborator, J. Robin Warren, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [MORE]

Making Good Bacteria Better

Probiotics
The GI tract is a persistent battleground between organisms that benefit or harm the human host.  The notion that [MORE]