Genetics

Beam Therapeutics CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Beam Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAM), a biotechnology company developing precision genetic drugs through base editing, today announced that new research highlighting the company’s internal efforts to develop better transplant preparation regimens for sickle cell disease (SCD) undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) will be introduced …

Beam Therapeutics will present the first approach to highlight research into the development of non-genotoxic conditioning regimens for patients with sickle cell disease prior to autologous transplantation Read More »

Illustration by Erik English. Science is about understanding how the natural world works and inventing machines, drugs and vaccines that make life easier on the planet. Understanding and imagination allow scientists to make predictions, which must then be confirmed by experiment. Nevertheless, in dynamic situations that involve more variables, such as in biology, this can …

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I I deliberately don’t avoid organic foods or markets, but I don’t look for them either. Claims that organic foods taste better or are more nutritious are not substantiated and certainly do not justify much higher prices. Mostly I am discouraged by the claim that organic food is pesticide-free, safer and more environmentally friendly. These …

Opinion: Misleading claims about Mom’s Organic Market shopping bags mislead shoppers about bee health, the dangers of pesticides and neonicotinoids Read More »

Bear deficiency (Haliotis cracherodii) were once abundant in California’s tidal habitats and provided proteins and shells to the indigenous peoples who lived with them for millennia. U.S. commercial fishing initially focused on relatives of herbivorous molluscs, but after declining of these molluscs caused by overfishing, large-scale commercial fishing for black scabbardfish began in 1968, pulling …

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image: Mary Jo Fackler, Ph.D. View more Credit: Peggy Li A new, automated liquid biopsy test developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center can accurately detect the presence of cancer DNA in the blood of patients with metastatic breast cancer within five hours. The test, currently a prototype for research use only, …

Liquid biopsy detects advanced DNA markers Read More »