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Innate immune system set to join antitumor fray

January 2, 2020

The natural immune system has two lines of defense that complement each other. In response to an infection, a rapid but fairly unspecific and short-lived response by the innate immune system is followed by the precisely targeted attack of the B and T cells of the adaptive immune system, followed by immune memory that can last a lifetime

BioWorld MedTech’s Diagnostics Extra for Jan. 2, 2020

January 2, 2020

By Meg Bryant

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Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics.

Snow White and the Seven snow white genomes

Lack of genomic diversity means actionable mutations are left undiscovered

December 31, 2019

By Anette Breindl

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Genome sequencing is enabling new insights into the genetic aspects of health and disease that have touched just about every aspect in biomedicine. It is also, like the “skin”-colored crayons of yore, disproportionately focused on the Caucasian segment of the population. And that is a loss for everyone.

Snow White and the seven snow white genomes

Lack of genomic diversity means actionable mutations are left undiscovered

December 31, 2019

By Anette Breindl

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BioWorld MedTech’s Oncology Extra for Dec. 31, 2019

December 31, 2019

By Mark McCarty

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Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology.

Year in Review: Promise of genomics finally impacting clinical care

December 30, 2019

By Nuala Moran

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LONDON – Twenty years on from sequencing of the first draft of the human genome and the associated hype, 2019 was the year that the science of genomics truly began to make an impact in health care.

The art of war

By spying on quorum sensing, immune system picks its battles

December 30, 2019

By Anette Breindl

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In the Dec. 20, 2019, issue of Science, Stefan Kaufmann, who is the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, and his colleagues report that the immune system could calibrate its response to Pseudomonas aeruginosa by monitoring the bacterial quorum sensing chatter.

Bioworld MedTech’s Cardiology Extra for Dec. 30, 2019

December 30, 2019

By Liz Hollis

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Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology.

Bioworld MedTech’s Neurology Extra for Dec. 27, 2019

December 27, 2019

By Andrea Applegate and Anette Breindl

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Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology.

Breaching all three meninges improves drug delivery to brain

December 27, 2019

By Anette Breindl

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A single injection of SOD1-targeting RNA into the subpial space, which is below the innermost meningeal layer, was able to spread throughout the spinal cord and, via retrograde delivery, into brain centers that project to the spinal cord in several animal models, including primates.

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