Preclinical
In a monumental new breakthrough, scientists in Japan have created an immature human egg using stem cells that were created from blood cells. While immature human eggs have been successfully created in the lab before, this marks the first time that researchers have been able to do it using human blood.
CRISPR, the gene editing technique that scientists claim will lead to the cure and prevention of countless diseases and disorders, took a big step in that direction. Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) used CRISPR to prevent a deadly metabolic disorder in prenatal laboratory animals.
There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them.
The 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter for research in utilizing evolutionary principles to create proteins.
Boston Pharma went on a buying binge, licensing a slew of compounds from GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis in two separate deals.
Two antimalarial strategies have been published from Imperial College London in the past month: new compounds that prevent the malaria parasite from infecting mosquitoes and gene-edited mosquitoes that cannot reproduce, leading to population destruction.
Dragonfly Therapeutics struck a licensing agreement worth up to $695 million with Merck. Merck will license exclusive rights to Dragonfly’s TriNKET technology platform for a number of solid-tumor programs, the company announced today.
There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them.
Some cancer cells have a remarkable and frightening sense of self-preservation to avoid immunotherapy treatments. That is the finding from a new study conducted by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
Incidence of Alzheimer’s disease is projected to double in the next 40 years unless a cure or preventive measures are found. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a new report in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia projecting the disease’s likely expansion, and for the first time, forecasted the disease by race and ethnicity.
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