As the vortex of the COVID-19 pandemic consumed the world in 2020, scientists worked at a frantic pace to understand the new virus sweeping the globe. The discoveries surrounding SARS-CoV-2 were impressive not only for the speed in which they took place, but also for the new pathways of research […]
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A new era of mitochondrial genome editing has begun — ScienceDaily
Researchers from the Center for Genome Engineering within the Institute for Basic Science developed a new gene-editing platform called transcription activator-like effector-linked deaminases, or TALED. TALEDs are base editors capable of performing A-to-G base conversion in mitochondria. This discovery was a culmination of a decades-long journey to cure human genetic […]
The Covid Era Has More Diabetes and Brain Fog
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Therese Raphael and Bloomberg Intelligence senior pharmaceutical analyst Sam Fazeli look at why the long tail of Covid is hard to pin down. Story continues below advertisement Therese Raphael: Let’s start with diabetes. Early in the pandemic, it became clear that diabetes (and obesity, which is often linked to […]
Breast cancer subtypes in an era of personalized medicine
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Discover how immunohistochemistry is supporting the identification of molecular subtypes of breast cancer In this SelectScience article, we talk with experts across pathology and cancer diagnosis on the current landscape of immunohistochemistry (IHC) for solving diagnostic problems, and explore some of the main challenges facing the diagnosis of breast pathology […]