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Experiment Reveals Human Genes Can Be Controlled With Electricity

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

New research from ETH Zürich in Switzerland could see future wearable devices (with perhaps a few implants and a touch of genetic engineering) boost our health directly. Fitness trackers help you stay healthy by keeping count of your steps and monitoring your heart rate, driving you on to hit those cardio goals.

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Enabling the next wave of innovative drug therapies with speciality enzymes

Pharmaceutical Technology

The next wave of medicine is well on course to be cell and gene-based. For cell and gene therapy applications, you need a variety of speciality enzymes of the highest purity, specificity, and consistency. Novozymes has a long legacy of enzyme discovery and the ability to genetically engineer these speciality enzymes to be superior.

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IBC vs. IRB: What’s the Difference?

Advarra

Gene therapy research is exciting and full of promise, but because of the risks involved, it’s also highly regulated, requiring an institutional biosafety committee (IBC) to provide additional oversight and risk assessment. What Does an IBC Review? What Does an IBC Review?

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#news #biotech Genetic engineering without unwanted side effects helps fight parasites

BioTech 365

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: Genetic engineering without unwanted side effects helps fight parasites.Modified CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing scissors are enabling researchers at the University of Zurich to make alterations to the genetic … Continue reading (..)

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Opinion: Where are the guidelines for the production of animals with intentional genomic alterations?

STAT News

Genetic engineering has the potential to transform how we raise animals for meat and other products, making food safer, improving animal health and welfare, and shrinking animal agriculture’s environmental footprint. Pigs that are less likely to induce allergic reactions in humans.

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Genetically engineered T cells could lead to therapies for autoimmune diseases

Scienmag

A new study has found that a novel T cell genetically engineered by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers is able to target and attack pathogenic T cells that cause Type 1 diabetes, which could lead to new immunotherapy treatments.

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Molecule holds promise to reprogram white blood cells for better cancer treatment

Scienmag

In this type of therapy, T cells, a type of white blood cell, are collected from a patient’s blood and subjected to genetic engineering to produce T cells carrying a synthetic molecule termed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) […].