Building custom blood cells to battle sickle cell disease
March 10, 2015 These are human blood cells grown in the lab from genetically edited stem cells. (Credit: Ying Wang/Johns Hopkins Medicine) Provided by Shawna Williams, Johns Hopkins Medicine...
View ArticleNano-Medicine Market Size is Expected to be Worth $130.9 Billion by 2016
KIDLINGTON, England, March 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Diagnosis and Drug Delivery for diseases like cancer, cardiovascular and genetic ailments have always been a concern. In recent years, however, new...
View ArticleJanet Rowley (Cancer Genetics) – Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzBLyv3pKFoJanet Rowley (Cancer Genetics)The following is an interview with Janet D. Rowley, MD, Blum-Riese Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics at The University of...
View ArticleScientists Pinpoint Molecule That Controls Stem Cell Plasticity by Boosting...
Contact Information Available for logged-in reporters only Newswise Stem cells can have a strong sense of identity. Taken out of their home in the hair follicle, for example, and grown in culture,...
View ArticleLetting go of the (genetic) apron strings
A new study from Princeton University sheds light on the handing over of genetic control from mother to offspring early in development. Learning how organisms manage this transition could help...
View Article'Ban DNA Editing Of Sperm And Eggs'
Designer babies are on their way, said experts in genetic engineering as they called for a global ban on the practice. It is thought that studies involving the use of genome-editing tools to modify...
View ArticleDr. Luria, Mori and Robak receive Pfizer/ACMG Foundation Translational...
Anne O’Donnell Luria, M.D., Ph.D., Boston Children’s Hospital; Mari Mori, M.D., Duke University; Laurie Robak M.D., Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine receive Pfizer/ACMG Foundation Clinical Genetics...
View ArticleResearchers greatly increase precision of new genome editing tool
CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful new tool for editing the genome. For researchers around the world, the CRISPR-Cas9 technique is an exciting innovation because it is faster and cheaper than previous methods....
View ArticleLocal innovation repairs holes in the heart
CardioCel has been initially well received with surgeons in Australia and overseas. Photo: Geoff Fisher For 10 years researchers at Admedus worked day and night trying to work out how to improve soft...
View ArticleBody's cancer defenses hijacked to make pancreatic, lung cancers more aggressive
Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered that a vital self-destruct switch in cells is hijacked — making some pancreatic and non small cell lung cancers more aggressive, according to research...
View ArticleBody's cancer defenses hijacked to make pancreatic and lung cancers more...
CANCER RESEARCH UK scientists have discovered that a vital self-destruct switch in cells is hijacked – making some pancreatic and non small cell lung cancers more aggressive, according to research...
View ArticleIs a loophole in stem cell law helping new therapy to thrive, or allowing...
Life-changing results: Sandra Sharman is a private stem cell patient. Photo: Meredith O’Shea Last week, Suzie Palmer, 44, travelled from her home in NSW to the Gold Coast for her second round of stem...
View ArticleStudy suggests new role for gene in suppressing cancer
Scientists at The University of Manchester have discovered that a previously known gene also helps cells divide normally and that its absence can cause tumours. The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) has...
View ArticleTSRI scientists find molecular trigger of schizophrenia-like behaviors and...
IMAGE:Authors of the new study from The Scripps Research Institute included Professor Jerold Chun (right), Associate Professor Beth Thomas and colleagues. view more Credit: Cindy Brauer, The Scripps...
View ArticleTeam offers bone surgery hope
Kenneth Lau Wednesday, April 08, 2015 The Chinese University and three mainland institutions have produced a new kind of “engineered bone” with blood vessels and nerve cells to help treat patients....
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Evans to discuss gene therapy at Mayo
Posted: Monday, April 13, 2015 8:31 am Evans to discuss gene therapy at Mayo , Post-Bulletin staff Post-Bulletin Company, LLC Christopher H. Evans, Ph.D., will speak about gene therapy at the Sigma Xi...
View ArticleProf George Fey Professor Emeritus of Genetics, University of Erlangen...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoODT3iVH7AProf George Fey Professor Emeritus of Genetics, University of Erlangen Nuremberg,CSO, SpectraMabBy: biopharmachannelView original post here:Prof George Fey Professor...
View ArticleBlood disorder study illustrates the challenges to parsing genetic data
IMAGE:Researchers pinpointed the locations on the blood platelet receptor proteins affected by DNA variations that alter the receptor’s amino acid building blocks, including those associated with the...
View ArticleInterview with Professor Martin Kupiec, Editor-in-Chief of Current Genetics –...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBFUWdlhJ3sInterview with Professor Martin Kupiec, Editor-in-Chief of Current GeneticsProfessor Kupiec, the journal's new Editor-in-Chief, speaks about Current Genetics,...
View ArticleScripps Research Institute Scientists Develop Alternative …
The Technique Points to Safer, Simpler Potential HIV Treatment LA JOLLA, CA July 1, 2012 Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a surprisingly simple and safe method to disrupt...
View ArticlePotential use of iPS cells to combat acute kidney disease …
Whilst transplantation often remains the only effective treatment for acute kidney disease, a new study from Kyoto University points to a future where renal progenitor cells derived from iPSCs could...
View ArticleThe Las Vegas A4M Conference – Life Extension
Every December, thousands of physicians attend what is by far the largest anti-aging conference in the world: the A4M (American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine) conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. I have...
View ArticleSpectacular Genetic Anomaly Results in Butterflies with …
James K. Adams, Professor of Biology, Dalton State College Andrew D. Warren, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History mybutterflybugs mybutterflybugs Kim Davis, Mike Stangeland, and Andrew Warren,...
View ArticleGene therapy – PBS
A treatment for Cystic Fibrosis. A cure for AIDS. The end of cancer. That’s what the newspapers promised us in the early 1990’s. Gene therapy was the answer to what ailed us. Scientists had at last...
View ArticleCell Therapy Ltd
Founded in 2009 by Nobel prize winner Professor Sir Martin Evans and Ajan Reginald, former Global Head of Emerging Technologies at Roche, CTL develops life-saving and life altering regenerative...
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