Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Remote speech analysis detects early bulbar changes in ALS; Novel NGS approach captures both mtDNA mutation and copy number; Neutrophils are literal obstacle to stroke recovery.
“It’s coming. We know it’s coming.” That was Nevan Krogan’s blunt reminder that SARS-CoV-2 is not the first virus to wreak temporary havoc on humanity, nor will it be the last.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Study finds fluorescence visualization not associated with reduced recurrence of oral cancer; Immunocytokines jump-start anti-glioblastoma immunity; Study backs protons in treatment of localized prostate cancer.
Investigators at the University of Heidelberg have identified a previously unknown mechanism for excitotoxicity and used their insight to identify “unconventional neuroprotectant” compounds that could prevent cell death and reduce brain damage in a mouse model of stroke.
Surprising no one, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of a method for genome editing,” that is, the CRISPR/Cas9 system.
