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Government and academic investigators have developed a vaccine against African swine fever that appears to be far more effective than previously developed vaccines.

A new study published in the journal Cell outlines researchers' development of reptile organoids; specifically, organoids of the venom glands of the Cape coral snake. What's more, these organoids are capable of producing venom in vitro.

Scientists have created a biodegradable nerve guide consisting of a polymer tube filled with a growth-promoting protein, glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor, or GDNF. The results in nonhuman primate studies are promising.

According to a study published in the Blood journal, drug profiling and the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing method have opened new avenues in the development of CAR T-cell therapy, used to treat leukaemia and lymphoma.

Whooping cough bacteria, potentially deadly in infants, are increasingly evading immunity from the existing vaccine, strengthening calls for a new vaccine to be developed and deployed urgently.

UNIGE researchers have discovered a new gene that causes blindness and
cardiomyopathy. They have also managed to halt the progression of eye disease and treat cardiac disease by administering a food supplement.

The likelihood of a patient responding to immune checkpoint blockade may depend on B cells in the tumor, located within specialized immune-cell clusters known as tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS), according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Epigenetic changes occur in the DNA of breast cancer cells that have developed a resistance to hormone therapy, an effective treatment for ER+ breast cancer, which accounts for 70% of all diagnoses.

New programmable materials suited for use as substrates in biomedical applications have now been developed, which can be used to create environments in which human stem cells can settle down and further develop.

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study identifies a potential new way to convince pluripotent cells to make hematopoietic stem cells. And, ironically, a possible way to do this lies in magnifying a gene that causes a form of childhood leukemia.