New Prime Editing Has The Potential to Search and Replace up to 89% of Genetic Defects
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New Prime Editing Has The Potential to Search and Replace up to 89% of Genetic Defects

  CNN recently covered a story in the publication Nature about a paper explaining base editing (or prime editing). The researchers who created the technology set forth the process of using base…

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Patients in Mayo Clinic’s RIGHT Study Carried One or More Genetic Variants That May Affect Their Response to Medication

  Pharmacogenomics plays an important role in predicting whether patients will benefit from certain medications or if the medication will cause serious side effects. The process involves the way in…

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The FDA’s Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation Discusses Accelerated Approvals

  In the mid-1980s the FDA was criticized for being slow in approving new drugs. In fact, a commission was formed as a result of the mounting criticism. Janet Woodcock,…

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A Record Number of FDA Drug Approvals in 2018 Is Followed by an Encouraging Start for 2019

Following a record number of approvals in 2018, the FDA has recently approved two new drugs with many more anticipated approvals later in the year. Trazimera to Treat Human Epidermal…

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MD Anderson Physicians Use a Diagnostic Method Called Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy To Determine Spread of Cancer
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MD Anderson Physicians Use a Diagnostic Method Called Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy To Determine Spread of Cancer

Although some ultrasound and/or CT scan studies may show that patients’ lymph nodes (glands) are free of disease, upon further examination using sentinel lymph node biopsies,(SLNB) the doctors at MD…

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Black Women May Have Higher Risk of Mutation Linked to Breast Cancer
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Black Women May Have Higher Risk of Mutation Linked to Breast Cancer

According to a publication from Breastcancer.org, black women are more likely than others to develop triple-negative breast cancer at some point in their lives. A study published by the journal…

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Looking Back With Humor: She Survived and Wrote a Book About How She Fought For Her Children, Her Life, and Her Sanity

Stephanie Hosford was recently interviewed by CURE (Cancer Updates Research and Education) about what she now calls her “three crazy days”. The title of her book is “Bald, Fat and…

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Breast Cancer Survivor Meets Researcher Who Could Find an Alternative Treatment to Chemotherapy
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Breast Cancer Survivor Meets Researcher Who Could Find an Alternative Treatment to Chemotherapy

According to a story by the Daily Record UK, Maggie Ritchie found out she was diagnosed with breast cancer and four years later was successfully cancer-free. She attributed the advanced…

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A Woman’s Severe Breast Cancer Was Eliminated Using New Immunotherapy Approach
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A Woman’s Severe Breast Cancer Was Eliminated Using New Immunotherapy Approach

According to a story from The Guardian, doctors are celebrating the effectiveness of an all new, experimental immunotherapy that was able to totally eliminate a case of metastatic breast cancer…

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