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A Visual Guide to Genome Editors

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For example, a classic study from Keith Joung’s lab at Harvard Medical School showed that shortening the gRNA spacer by 2-3 nucleotides heavily reduced off-targets as it destabilized, and thus decreased, mismatched binding. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and also writes about science fact and fiction on Substack.

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Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood Factory

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In 1926, one of Cohn’s academic colleagues at Harvard Medical School discovered that patients suffering from pernicious anemia, a form of vitamin B12 deficiency, could be cured by eating liver. Cohn was the only non-medical researcher invited, and he made a big impression. At the time, the U.S.

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Breathing low-oxygen air slows Parkinson’s progression in mice

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Morton professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and MGH. Eizo Marutani, an instructor of anesthesia at MGH and Harvard Medical School, is the first author of the new paper.& The researchers caution that it’s too soon to translate these results directly to new treatments for patients.

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Scientists discover network of cells and genes involved in Crohn’s disease complication

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Appearing today in Nature Genetics , the work was led by senior authors Ramnik Xavier and Christopher Smillie , associate member at the Broad and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Xavier is a Broad core institute member and the director of Broad’s Klarman Cell Observatory, the Kurt J.

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Navigating the challenges of cell therapies

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in Chemistry from Villanova University and shortly thereafter began his scientific career in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School studying host-pathogen interactions. Dr Siciliano received a B.S. He then earned a Ph.D.

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Mediating BRAF-mutant melanoma resistance

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She went on to an internship in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital and a residency in dermatology at Harvard Medical School. She moved to Johns Hopkins in 1999 as an Assistant Professor of Oncology, Dermatology, and Molecular Biology and Genetics and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004.

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Advancing CAR-T therapy: how CD5 modulation is shaping cancer treatment

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Dr Siciliano received a BS in chemistry from Villanova University and shortly thereafter began his scientific career in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School studying host-pathogen interactions.