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Zinc Finger Proteins Put Personalized HIV Therapy Within Reach

Thursday, 03 July 2008
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and collaborators are using minute, naturally occurring proteins called zinc fingers to engineer T cells to one day treat AIDS in humans.
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Penn Animal Study Identifies New DNA Weapon Against Avian Flu

Thursday, 03 July 2008
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified a potential new way to vaccinate against avian flu. By delivering vaccine via DNA constructed to build antigens against flu, along with a minute electric pulse, researchers have immunized experimental animals against various strains of the virus. This approach could allow for the build up of vaccine reserves that could be easily and effectively dispensed in case of an epidemic. This study was published last week in PLoS ONE.
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Stem Cell's Fork in the Road

Thursday, 05 June 2008

The road to death or differentiation follows a similar course in embryonic stem cells, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in a report that appears online today in the journal Cell Stem Cell.

“Caspases, known as ‘killer enzymes,’ that are activated during programmed cell death, are also active in the initial phases of cell differentiation,” said Dr. Thomas Zwaka, assistant professor in the Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Center (STaR) at BCM.

Didn't Make It to ISAC?

Wednesday, 21 May 2008
If you were one of the unlucky who didn't get their funding proposal or poster in on time, or otherwise had to keep the lab afloat while your colleagues left to jet set around Europe, don't be upset. We have sent our trusty Application Scientist off to do a little reconnaissance on the 24th ISAC Congress in Budapest, Hungary. Here is a blow-by-blow account of the last four days provided by MyCyte correspondent-at-large John Quinn Ph.D...enjoy!!
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