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A Gel after Cancer Surgery

Dendritic Cell Revealed
A gel of biodegradable sugar and drugs that activate dendritic cells has been shown in animal studies to [MORE]

The Youngest Stem Cells

Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Pluripotent embryonic stem cells are derived from blastocysts of about 100 cells, which means those stem cells [MORE]

Reversible RNA Editing

The Broad Institute’s pioneering lab for gene editing has developed a version of CRISPR that permits reversible RNA editing. “The [MORE]

Gene Therapy Nanoparticles that Enhance CAR-T Therapy

CAR-Engineered T-Cell
Some of the excitement over chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy for cancer has diminished following the first patient [MORE]

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

Cardiovascular System
Immunologists, among others, know that a single gene mutation can have seemingly unrelated expressions, such as Ataxia telangiectasia presenting [MORE]

Temperature Reading Smartphone Monitors Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Podimetricspic
Diabetic foot ulcers are implicated in some 100,000 amputations each year. In most instances, the problem does present until the [MORE]

Long Read Sequencing

DNA Sequencing
Carney complex is a rare genetic disease that presents multiple benign tumors in the heart, skin and other tissues [MORE]

More about an “Exercise Pill”

Exercise
In our June 27 issue you saw a story about an exercise pill under research at Augusta University in Georgia. [MORE]

Smartphone Add on Cardiac Monitor

Confirm Rx Insertable Cardiac Monitor
Last year, when Abbott Laboratories acquired St. Jude Medical one of products in the deal was [MORE]

CRISPR Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases

MIT Professors Collins and Zhang SHERLOCK Developers
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing has been thought to be most useful in altering DNA, rather [MORE]

New Progress with Antisense Oligonucleotides

Reversing Ataxia in Mice
Ataxia, in its most severe form and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis share the same symptoms of life-threatening, deteriorating [MORE]

Doppler Ultrasound to Detect Blood Clots

Sonavex Ultrasound
Doppler ultrasound generates frequencies that are amplified when a transducer moves over an artery or vein. A blockage changes [MORE]

MicroRNAs in Rebuilding Myelin Sheath of Nerve Cells

Myelin Genes After Treatment with MicroRNA
Researchers at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have found that a short segment of RNA called [MORE]

Improved Cell Culturing for CAR-T Therapy

T-Cell
CAR-T cell therapy for cancer has been more promising than performing so far, partly because T-cells that can recognize protein [MORE]