What do new gene and cell therapies have to offer?
November 24, 2022
What do new gene and cell therapies have to offer conditions like cancer, inherited eye diseases, spinal muscular atrophy and other degenerative diseases? Can we engineer immune cells to treat cancer? Or bring eye sight by...
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Using stem cells to give sight and controlling rogue blood stem cells
November 15, 2022
Researchers working with stem cells to restore sight and fight blood cancers are the two winners of the 2022 Metcalf Prizes for Stem Cell Research, awarded by the National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia. Dr...
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Turning blood cells into muscle cells to test treatments for childhood muscular dystrophy
October 25, 2022
Melbourne researcher Dr Peter Houweling is growing mini-muscles in the lab, in order to study muscular dystrophy in children, without the need for invasive and painful tissue biopsies. “Basically, we take an ordinary blood sample and regress...
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