London (AP) – On March 4, 2020, when there were only 84 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the UK, Professor Sharon Peacock acknowledged that the country needed to increase its capacity to analyze the genetic makeup of the virus. Microbiologists at the University of Cambridge understood that genomic sequencing would …
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Drug development for sickle-cell disease, largely neglected for decades, is becoming a crowded field: two papers published on Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine give promising results from a study of experimental therapies, including Crisper gene editing for the disease. In addition, Beam Therapeutics Inc. The American Society …
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reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.July 21, 2020 An international team of researchers has developed a non-invasive blood test that can detect if a person has one of the five common types of cancer, four years before the condition can be diagnosed with current methods. The test detects cancer of the …
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