Archive for the ‘biotech/medical’ category: Page 2061
Jun 10, 2019
New Immunotherapy Treatment Removes All Tumors In Woman With Advanced Metastatic Breast Cancer
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Research published today in Nature Medicine by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has described a new immunotherapy approach, which led to a complete disappearance of tumors in a woman with advanced metastatic breast cancer who only had months to live.
The findings show how naturally-occurring tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) were extracted from the patient’s tumor, grown outside of her body to boost their numbers and injected back into the patient to tackle the cancer. The patient had previously received several treatments including hormone therapies and chemotherapy, but nothing had stopped the cancer progressing. After the treatment, all of the patient’s tumors disappeared and 22 months later, she is still in remission.
Researchers are particularly enthusiastic about the potential of TILs to treat a group of cancers termed ‘common epithelial cancers’, which include those of the colon, rectum, pancreas, breast and lung, together accounting for 90% of all deaths due to cancer in the U.S, around 540,000 people annually, most of these from metastatic disease.
Jun 10, 2019
This Insane Nanochip Device Can Heal Tissue Just by Touching The Skin Once
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Imagine buzzing the skin over an internal wound with an electrical device and having it heal over just a few days – that’s the promise of new nanochip technology that can reprogram cells to replace tissue or even whole organs.
It’s called Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), and while it’s only been tested on mice and pigs so far, the early signs are encouraging for this new body repair tool — and it sounds like a device straight out of science-fiction.
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Jun 10, 2019
3D bioprinting: Is this the future of organ transplantation?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, bioprinting, biotech/medical
Scientists around the world are developing revolutionary means by which to 3D print parts of the human body, from skin to internal organs.
Jun 10, 2019
Transplanting Gut Microbes from Young to Old Mice Reverses Immune Decline
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
The gut microbiome appears to be increasingly responsible for at least some of the decline of the immune system during aging, and a new mouse study shows that it is reversible.
The gut microbiome
The microbiome describes a varied community of bacteria, archaea, eukarya, and viruses that inhabit our guts. The four bacterial phyla of Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, and Actinobacteria comprise 98% of the intestinal microbiome.
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Jun 10, 2019
HIV-protective mutation may boost influenza death risk
Posted by Ours Ondine in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics
LMAO The babies died of the flu Keep making mistakes on the aleal borders and the organism dies of viral infections… This seems to be exactly the same result as a majority of the cloned animals over the last thirty years too. It is hard to get that puppy of your favorite dog to stick… Pitty really for the genetically engineered children who will mostly suffer and die before adulthood.
Gene targeted in the ‘CRISPR baby’ scandal might prove fatal, study finds. Nick carne reports.
Jun 9, 2019
‘Jumping genes’ could help CRISPR replace disease-causing DNA, study finds
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Researchers describe combining a “jumping gene” with CRISPR enzymes to deliver a a package of DNA to precise addresses in the E. coli genome.
Jun 9, 2019
Mirror-image enzyme copies looking-glass DNA
Posted by Richard Christophr Saragoza in category: biotech/medical
Jun 9, 2019
Richard Christophr Saragoza Photo
Posted by Richard Christophr Saragoza in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience, quantum physics
The double helix of dna and transferring for information and energy by torsion field in quantum beings.
Every human is a complex, multi-dimensional energy being.
THE HUMAN BIOFIELD DEFINED:
Jun 9, 2019
The gene therapy revolution is here. Medicine is scrambling to keep pace
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
Greg Dore at the Kirby Institute of NSW participated in Australia’s Hepatitis C pricing discussions, and believes our model will work for the new gene therapy drugs – notwithstanding their eye-popping price tags – and the fact that the patient populations for these rare genetic diseases will be tiny.
However, the real reason companies are getting into gene therapy is not just to treat rare disease. It’s because they realise this technology will be a game changer for medicine.