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TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 13, 2016, 3:30 p.m....mesothelioma treatment As with many forms of cancer, the primary conventional treatments for mesothelioma...than systemic chemotherapy treatments delivered intravenously. New treatment options: Early detection, ...well treatments are working to fight the cancer. Beyond early modifications to standard treatments and...are running out of hope with more traditional treatments, such as surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy... to the fore as a cutting edge form of cancer treatment. With the goal of the Cancer Moonshot Initiative...sufferers can see great promise in up and coming treatments like immunotherapy. Mesothelioma Mesothelioma...not, multiple techniques are used as part of a treatment plan, an approach known as multimodal therapy....
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New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 22, 2015, 2:30 p.m....cell populations resistant to drug treatments arise during treatment or are preexisting in the parent population...are resistant to drug treatment and that these are selected for during the treatment process. The authors... population prior to the start of treatment. They hypothesized that, if they labeled the parent cell population...stochastically arise from different cells throughout the treatment regimen and were not preexisting. This was previously...measure their clonal abundance before and after a treatment. The library consists of a pool of lentiviral ...antibiotic resistant cancer cells exist prior to drug treatment. They infected a non-small cell lung cancer cell...library and monitored population dynamics after treatment with EGFR inhibitor, erlotinib. Looking at barcode... -
CRISPR in the Clinic
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 2, 2023, 1:15 p.m....currently working on giving this treatment a CRISPR spin. CRISPR CAR-T treatments for leukemia, lymphoma, and...particular class of treatments has quite the opposite aim: to destroy. One treatment currently in clinical...almost 10 years later, CRISPR’s potential for treatment is no longer an accurate descriptor; progress ...already approved CAR-T immunotherapy for cancer treatment by traditional gene therapy pipelines (viral),...of its potential for allogenic “off-the-shelf” treatment. In short, instead of using the patient’s own ...which affect hemoglobin. Most of the targeted treatment strategies for these disorders have involved turning...are being finalized, and it is very likely the treatments will be approved for use in the next few months... -
Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 14, 2017, 2:30 p.m....labor with up and coming immunotherapy treatments. As treatments enter the clinic, physicians and researchers...cause, manifestation, diagnosis, recurrence, and treatment of cancer have been extensively explored. Biologists...known as the tumor microenvironment - a vital atmosphere created by the cancer cells to shield themselves... ability of even these conventional antitumor treatment strategies can be enhanced. Types of immunotherapeutics...Future directions and open questions in cancer treatment We are beginning to see the fruits of many years...researchers are learning much about how treatment regimens can be improved and how the therapies themselves...have occurred during CAR-T cell tests because treatment regimens were not chosen carefully. Participants... -
Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 10, 2016, 3:30 p.m....antibiotics in livestock farming Lengthy courses of treatment with antibiotics These scenarios expose bacterial...considering the other three scenarios, but a short treatment regiment might wipe out bacteria that are completely... susceptible to a drug while a full course of treatment is required to wipe out those bacteria that are...are partially resistant. If you stop a treatment early, you may be un-wittingly selecting for less susceptible...for the drug to work… if the instructions for treatment aren’t followed closely, you could be doing more...the infection is serious or life-threatening, treatment will often begin before this information becomes...expect if a certain antibiotic were chosen for treatment. This is called a Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion test... -
Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 26, 2016, 3:30 p.m....research conducted on DMD, there is still no good treatment. The dystrophin gene is very large (79 exons),...functional, exon skipping is a good option for DMD treatment. Clinical trials have used oligonucleotide exon... genome editing Since complex oligonucleotide treatment comes with many challenges, researchers have begun...is a good choice for a CRISPR proof of concept treatment, as the disease is especially well suited for ...the technology is advancing, precision editing treatments may also be closer than we might expect. References... -
BeHeard Award 2018: Diseases of Glycosylation, Arginine Mutagenesis, & Neural Development
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 26, 2018, 1:33 p.m....chemical, guanidine hydrochloride, as a potential treatment for a large number of rare genetic diseases. Spontaneous...GdnHCl was approved by the FDA in 1939 for the treatment of botulism and Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome...GdnHCl could, in principle, provide an effective treatment for rare diseases caused by Arg-mutant proteins...genetic disorders, these will also allow better treatment of these related syndromes. Many thanks and best... -
AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 31, 2018, 12:55 p.m....emerging technology and its potential for the treatment of some genetic diseases. I didn’t know it at...approved Luxturna™ the first gene therapy for the treatment of a rare genetic eye disease, Leber’s congenital...may wonder why the first AAV-based gene therapy treatment for a genetic disease approved by the FDA is for...Lancelot, one of the dogs who received the AAV-RPE65 treatment, famously visited Congress to help increase awareness... -
CRISPR Antimicrobials
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m....hospital-borne infection. Two rounds of phagemid treatment were sufficient to wipe out the virulent strain...strain. Bacteria not killed by the first round of treatment either did not receive a phagemid, lost the phagemid... In a mouse skin colonization model, phagemid treatment decreased the proportion of virulent S. aureus... cells could repopulate the environment after treatment. The phagemid systems used in both papers are ... -
Is this the right place for me? 8 tactics for choosing a lab
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 2, 2018, 12:56 p.m....totem pole). Can you see yourself enjoying this atmosphere? Lab size matters Yes, yes it’s all about ...the science but really it’s not. It’s about the atmosphere that will allow you to thrive. How big is the... the energy level in the lab? Does a frenetic atmosphere make you edgy or energized? Are you an only...Everyone’s different so give some thought to what atmosphere makes you successful. Collaborative Competitive... -
Finding Your Perfect Job After University
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 12, 2016, 3:30 p.m....especially when I knew that there was a cheap and easy treatment for a disease that traditional medicine couldn...company carries out clinical trials of drugs and treatments for external companies. It was really exciting...types of pancreatic cancer and highlighting which treatment would produce the best outcome for a specific ...impact people’s lives and would improve their treatment outcomes. I would say that the only downside of... -
Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 10, 2024, 1:15 p.m....lines, you can consider a cell treatment approach. If there is a cell treatment (e.g. PMA or a specific cytokine...same cell lines/background. However, the cell treatment will frequently induce/suppress the expression...overexpression with the use of orthogonal approaches, cell treatments, and independent antibody approaches in different... -
Running for Rare Disease, Running for FOP, Running for AJ
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 15, 2016, 2:30 p.m....rare disease and helps patients find the correct treatments, if available. As part of the team, I started... But, as we in the scientific community know, treatments that work well in animal models do not always... Disease Researchers Check Out Potentiall HIV Treatments with CRIPSR Resources on Addgene.org Find ACVR1... -
Antibodies 101: Beyond Surface Labeling
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m....effect of the fixing/permeabilization (fix/perm) treatment is that the cells are now stable for much longer...signal strength in a flow plot. d = days post treatment. Created using biorender.com. Cell viability...labeling protocol is necessary, requiring chemical treatment of the cells after surface labeling. Intracellular... -
Mycoplasma Contamination: Where Does It Come From and How to Prevent It
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 8, 2020, 1:15 p.m....drawbacks while considering this treatment as the duration of treatment can affect the cell growth and ...agents can be used to wash the cell cultures. The treatment can take a few weeks to a couple of months depending... -
Phage Directory: From Phage Therapy to a Repository of Phage Information
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 10, 2019, 2:38 p.m....organisms closely related to the clinical sample. For treatment, it is best to identify a cocktail of 3-12 phages...endotoxin levels, etc. can vary depending where treatment occurs. In addition to providing much needed information... -
CASTing Off for New Shores in Human Genome Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 10, 2025, 1:15 p.m....emerging world of gene therapy, highly tailored treatments to specific mutations require individualized ...is an important step toward that kind of gene treatment. The researchers also compared evoCAST to the ... -
CRISPR 101: Drug discovery and CRISPR
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 4, 2023, 1 p.m....requires understanding the disease genetics and the “treatment” usually requires drugs. While we often think ...combinatorial drugs on for effectiveness prior to patient treatment. Target validation When a target is known and ... -
History of CRISPR Cas - A tale of survival and evolution
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 25, 2013, 10:12 p.m....Wikipedia, accessed 25 November 2013. Author: James Atmos (2). Many CRISPR/Cas moieties carry out these...Wikipedia, accessed 25 November 2013. Author: James Atmos. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crispr.png ... -
Meet the New Addgene Board Members!
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 28, 2020, 1:14 p.m....Ultragenyx’s goal is to develop novel products for the treatment of rare and ultra-rare diseases. “Today, I am ...of more than 1 million cancer cells under drug treatment.” Stegmeier especially finds the value in the ...