Harvard Scientists Create Gene-Editing Tool That Could Rival CRISPR Researchers from the Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have created a new gene-editing tool that can enable scientists to perform millions of genetic experiments simultaneously. They're calling it the Retron Library Recombineering (RLR) technique, and it uses segments of
Genetic Cause of Hearing Loss Discovered, May Lead to Cure for Deafness While many people will lose their hearing due to a traumatic injury or other causes, some are unfortunately born without the ability to hear sound. In the United States, between two and three out of every 1,000 children
Experimental Gene Therapy Cures Children Born Without an Immune System in Clinical Trials An experimental form of gene therapy developed by a team of researchers from UCLA and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London has successfully treated 48 of 50 children born with a rare and deadly inherited disorder that
Alzheimer’s Treatment Proves Effective at Preventing Inflammation, Failure of Orthopedic Implants From a simple tooth to a major knee replacement, dental and orthopedic implant surgeries to common around the globe. However, these procedures can fail due to the immune system’s response to bacteria or metal particles coming off the implants.
An Asthma Vaccine Effective in Mice Inserm teams led by Laurent Reber (Infinity, Toulouse) and Pierre Bruhns (Humoral Immunity, Institut Pasteur, Paris) and French company NEOVACS have developed a vaccine that could induce long-term protection against allergic asthma, reducing the severity of its symptoms and thus significantly improving patient quality
Stroke-Recovery Device Using Brain-Computer Interface Receives FDA Market Authorization A first-of-its kind device that helps people disabled by stroke regain significant control over their arm and hand function by using their minds has received market authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The IpsiHand Upper Extremity Rehabilitation System, developed
Draining Brain’s Debris Enhances Alzheimer’s Therapies in Mice Experimental Alzheimer’s drugs have shown little success in slowing declines in memory and thinking, leaving scientists searching for explanations. But new research in mice has shown that some investigational Alzheimer’s therapies are more effective when paired with a treatment geared toward improving
Lighting Up Biology from Within A biochemical reaction between an enzyme called luciferase and oxygen causes fireflies to glow and is considered one of the most well-known examples of bioluminescence in nature. Now, an international team of researchers led by Elena Goun at the University of Missouri is working to
Ticking Upward: MU Researcher Studies Rise of Tick-Borne Diseases in Midwest When Ram Raghavan heard from a former colleague at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that a 7-year-old girl had died from Rocky Mountain spotted fever as the result of a tick bite, he thought of his own
Dineo Khabele, MD, Chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine Dineo Khabele, MD is the Chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine. She is a recognized physician-scientist with extensive clinical and translational research
