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Large-Scale Production of Living Brain Cells Enables Entirely New Research
NewsAfter performing a biopsy on the patient, the skin cells are transformed into brain cells that effectively imitate the disease and the age of the patient.
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U.S. Study of Dapivirine Ring in Lactating Women Finds Little Drug Gets Into Breast Milk
NewsThe antiretroviral drug dapivirine that is released from an experimental vaginal ring to protect against HIV is absorbed in very low concentrations into breastmilk.
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Cell Recycling System Offers Therapeutic Entry Point for Rare Disease Treatment
NewsScientists have demonstrated how an investigational drug works against a rare, fatal genetic disease, Niemann-Pick type C1 (NPC1).
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Cancer Cells Force Normal Cells to Act Like Viruses, Helping Tumors Spread
NewsResearchers reveal how cancer cells force normal cells to act like viruses – allowing tumors to grow, resist treatment, and spread.
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CRISPR Reveals New Targets for Promising Cancer Drugs
News Jul 20, 2017Novel screening method identifies new drug targets that could potentially enhance the effectiveness of PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors, a promising new class of cancer immunotherapy.
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BioAscent Announces New CEO and Plans to Expand Discovery Services Offering
News Jul 19, 2017BioAscent Discovery Limited appoints new CEO, Paul Smith in preparation for the expansion of companies discovery services.
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Synthetic Material to Support Stem Cells Developed
News Jul 18, 2017New substrates have been developed which can be used to raise stem cells for a wide variety of uses.
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Bone Cancer Drug Targets Tumors, Spares Other Organs
News Jul 16, 2017A study led by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found a drug known as bone metastasis-targeting peptidomimetic (BMTP-11) has potential as a new therapeutic strategy for this devastating illness.
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Big-Data Analysis Points Toward New Drug Discovery Method
News Jul 16, 2017A research team has developed a computational method to systematically probe massive amounts of open-access data to discover new ways to use drugs, including some that have already been approved for other uses.
New Algorithms Help Extract 3-D Biological Structure from Limited Data
News Jul 16, 2017CAMERA researchers capitalize on their Multi-Tiered Iterative Phasing approach to determine molecular structure of proteins and viruses from X-ray free electron laser data.
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Elsevier Launches The Hive for 2017 to Showcase Pharma and Biotech Startup Innovation
News Jul 13, 2017Application process for innovation hub now open – with a minimum of eight startups working on cutting-edge science to be selected
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Anti-CRISPR Proteins Decrease Damaging Off-target Effects
News Jul 13, 2017Research now shows that the countermeasure viruses came up with — inhibitory proteins referred to as anti-CRISPRs — can be used to improve CRISPR-Cas9 as a gene-therapy tool, decreasing off-target gene editing that could cause unwanted side effects.
Edith Heard Unanimously Selected as Next Director General of EMBL
News Jul 13, 2017At its 53rd meeting yesterday, EMBL Council selected Edith Heard as the organization’s fifth Director General. Heard’s mandate is scheduled to begin 1 January 2019.
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Precision NanoSystems to Host Nanomedicines Symposium
News Jul 12, 2017Precision NanoSystems holds its second annual nanomedicines symposium called Nanomedicines that will discuss the latest developments in nanomedicine research.
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EMBL Conference: European Conference of Life Science Funders and Foundations
Apr 19 - Apr 20, 2018
