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A Step Toward A Better Way To Make Gene Therapies To Attack Cancer, Genetic Disorders

A UCLA-led research team today reports that it has developed a new method for delivering DNA into stem cells and immune cells safely, rapidly and economically.

28 Apr 2020

A New Therapeutic Target Turns The Immune System Against Lymphoma

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is a group of cancers that originate in the lymph nodes and affect white blood cells of the immune system called B cells.

24 Apr 2020

Uncovering how different types of stimulation impact neuronal activity

Using electrodes smaller than a human hair, researchers are able to connect mind to machine and interact with the human brain in revolutionary ways.

8 Apr 2020

Personalized biohybrid microrobots for therapeutic cargo delivery

Tiny biohybrid robots on the micrometer scale can swim through the body and deliver drugs to tumors or provide other cargo-carrying functions.

8 Apr 2020

Discovery Of New Biomarker In Blood Could Lead To Early Test For Alzheimer's Disease

Researchers discovered that high blood levels of RNA produced by the PHGDH gene could serve as a biomarker for early detection of Alzheimer's disease.

From UC San Diego 2 Apr 2020

Genetically manipulating cells using synthetic materials to construct artificial structures

Researchers at the Stanford School of Engineering have designed a technique for reprogramming cells to use synthetic materials, which the team provides, to create artificial structures that can perform functions within the body.

20 Mar 2020

A New Imaging Technique for Mapping Forces Exerted by Cell Clusters

AZoLifeSciences talks to Ian Wong about a new imaging technique that maps forces cell clusters exert on their surroundings.

From Brown University 19 Mar 2020

New chromosome-level detectors developed to monitor cellular activity

For researchers investigating the regulatory processes in cells that are vital to all life, an innovative system that amplifies gene expression signals could be a turning point.

10 Mar 2020