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Reuters
Two babies rescued from previously incurable leukemia after receiving infusions of gene-edited immune cells are doing well at home more than a year after initial treatment, scientists said.
Layla Richards became the first person in the world to get the "off-the-shelf" cell therapy developed by French biotech firm Cellectis at Britain's Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2015. A second girl was treated soon afterwards.
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The Scripps Research Institute via Lab Manager
Life's genetic code has only ever contained four natural bases. These bases pair up to form two "base pairs" — the rungs of the DNA ladder — and they have simply been rearranged to create bacteria and butterflies, penguins and people. Four bases make up all life as we know it.
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Medical Xpress via University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Breast cancer cells are evasive, finding ways to bypass drugs designed to stop their unchecked growth. In a new study, researchers uncovered a mechanism of resistance used by a particularly aggressive breast cancer type, and revealed a possible drug combination that could stop cancer growth and also help to prevent resistance.
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Trinity College Dublin via Infection Control Today
Scientists have discovered that a biological molecule important in cell growth (STAT3) is also critical in protecting us against infection — so much so that we would be unable to fight the common flu virus without it. Their discovery could pave the way to the development of new therapeutics charged with restoring our natural immunity to a whole spectrum of viruses that have evolved "roadblocks" to the immune response.
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University of Leeds via ScienceDaily
A new treatment for Clostridium difficile infections reduces recurrent infections by nearly 40 percent, a large study has found. C-diff, a bacterium that infects the bowel, is the most common cause of infectious diarrhea in hospitalized patients.
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Medical News Today
Scientists have discovered how HIV infects macrophages — an important group of immune cells — despite the fact that they have a protein that normally protects them against such invasions. In a study published in the EMBO Journal, the team — led by members of University College London in the United Kingdom — describes how macrophages temporarily switch the protein off, and how HIV exploits this window of opportunity.
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DARK Daily
Medical laboratories and pathology groups will soon see new blood tests that measure hundreds of biomarkers. One such test is being developed by Children's Health Research Institute, a Lawson Health Research Institute program, and Western University in Ontario, Canada. This test, based on metabolomics, has been shown to be 90 percent accurate for diagnosing concussion in preliminary studies.
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HealthDay News
It might sound like science fiction, but researchers have successfully used human stem cells to create embryos that are part human, part pig.
Scientists said the long-range goal is to better understand and treat an array of human diseases.
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