Lila Abassi
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Mild to murderous: Zika’s one mutation evolution
Zika has been around for some time – first identified in 1947 in Uganda - but it was never really given much thought. It ...

Newly approved CAR-T therapy could mark breakthrough in cancer treatments
Carl H. June, MD, is a professor of immunology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He developed ...

Mechanisms behind epigenetics still widely misunderstood
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The scientific community reacted ...
It’s too early to draw conclusions about how epigenetics affects health
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a recent study, ...

Are ‘lifestyle drugs’ becoming the way of the future?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Electrocuting your brain, compounding ...

Regenerative medicine boosted by 3D bioprinting breaching new grounds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Maybe 3D printing is ...
Gene therapy successfully cures hemophilia in dogs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Hemophilia was once popularly ...