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HealthDay News via WebMD
A significant number of people with HIV have strains of the AIDS-causing virus that are resistant to both older and newer drugs, researchers report.
The researchers looked at 712 HIV patients worldwide whose infection was not controlled by anti-retroviral drugs.
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STAT
In the latter half of the 20th century, antibiotics revolutionized the world of medicine. Instead of bacterial infections running their course, which often led to death, antibiotics now stop many of them in their tracks, saving millions of lives.
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Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania via Lab Manager
CRISPR/Cas9, a powerful genome-editing tool, is showing promise for efficient correction of disease-causing mutations. For the first time, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a dual gene therapy approach to deliver key components of a CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene targeting system to mice to treat hemophilia B.
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Allen Institute for Cell Science via ScienceDaily
The Allen Institute for Cell Science has released the Allen Cell Collection: the first publicly available collection of gene-edited, fluorescently tagged human induced pluripotent stem cells that target key cellular structures with unprecedented clarity. Distributed through the Coriell Institute for Medical Research, these powerful tools are a crucial first step toward visualizing the dynamic organization of cells to better understand what makes human cells healthy and what goes wrong in disease.
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DARK Daily
Three years after the roll out of the Affordable Care Act's major provisions, more small and midsize companies may be opting to self-insure their employee health plans rather than face the coverage mandates and administrative costs imposed by Obamacare, a recent study found. It is uncertain how this trend will improve the access clinical laboratories and pathology groups have with these patients.
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The JAMA Network Journals via News-Medical.Net
Among women with metastatic breast cancer, treatment with a drug that is biosimilar to the breast cancer drug trastuzumab resulted in an equivalent overall response rate at 24 weeks compared with trastuzumab, according to a study published online by JAMA.
Biological agents, including monoclonal antibodies, have increased the treatment options and greatly improved outcomes for a number of cancers.
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Medical News Today
Fewer than 5 percent of cases of Alzheimer's disease have a clear genetic cause, making it hard to predict who will develop the devastating brain-wasting disorder. There is an urgent need to develop biomarkers and early treatments before the symptoms of decline take hold and destroy lives.
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