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Anitta Rose Chacko is our 2020 Science Writing Competition runner-up with her article about Parkinson's disease.
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Christopher Smith
- Aug 17, 2020
- 2 min
Skin; Lets Break It Down
Christopher Smith receives a special mention for our 2020 Science Writing Competition with his poem about the SGPL1 gene.
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Mustafa M. Munye
- May 5, 2020
- 5 min
CRISPR-engineered T cells in patients with refractory cancer
A summary of a University of Pennsylvania clinical trial to assess the safety and feasibility of this approach.
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Christos Georgiadis
- Dec 18, 2019
- 4 min
Precision correction of pathogenic mutations using prime editing technology
A broad range of genome editing tools are currently available enabling targeted scission at a predetermined DNA locus.
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Alexander Baker
- Nov 26, 2019
- 3 min
Programmed to kill: Synthetic virology to attack cancer
Carefully modified viruses are becoming major new drugs in the battle against cancer.
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Robyn Bell
- Oct 13, 2019
- 2 min
Gene-loaded sutures to promote tendon healing
Injuries to tendons are commonly seen in the clinic yet few strategies exist to improve upon slow and largely poor tendon healing standards.
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Sian Harding
- Sep 29, 2019
- 3 min
3D Printing of Personalized Cardiac Patches and Hearts
Tissue engineering for cardiac repair has reached an advanced stage and engineered constructs are starting to be approved for trials.
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Linda Popplewell
- Jul 24, 2019
- 4 min
Retirement of Prof George Dickson, a founder of British Society for Gene and Cell Therapy
The British Society for Gene Therapy was founded by a number of pioneers in the field including Prof George Dickson.
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Liam Hurst
- Jul 15, 2019
- 4 min
The origin of your noggin
‘Where do you get your brains from?!’
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Jonathan Appleby
- May 13, 2019
- 5 min
Human Germline Editing – What’s the big deal?
In November 2018, He Jiankui, gave a presentation at the second international summit on Human Genome Editing.
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Alan Parker
- Apr 24, 2019
- 4 min
One image at a time: using cryoEM to unpick how viruses infect cells
Over the last few years a wave of virus-based therapies has progressed through late stage clinical evaluation and to (or near to) the market
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Alexandra McCarron
- Mar 14, 2019
- 5 min
A final chance to breathe: Could gene therapy cure cystic fibrosis lung disease?
For decades, scientists and doctors have worked tirelessly towards developing effective treatments for CF.
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Subashan Vadibeler
- Feb 22, 2019
- 5 min
Cracking the enthesis code
More than three quarters of shoulder repair surgeries fail while long-term disabilities due to sports-related injuries remain a huge burden.
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Beth MacLeod
- Feb 1, 2019
- 5 min
Overcoming the disconnection
A hundred billion neurons are making connections with one another, constantly firing and passing messages to every part of our body.
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Lucy Lewis
- Jan 21, 2019
- 4 min
Putting the dopamine back in Parkinson’s
One in 37 people in the UK are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD) during their lifetime (Parkinson’s UK, 2018).
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Helena Meyer-Berg
- Dec 14, 2018
- 4 min
Rare is not so rare
In the disease surfactant protein B deficiency, a certain protein called surfactant protein B is missing in the lung of new-born babies.
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Alan Parker
- Nov 27, 2017
- 3 min
It’s an ECR life?
Who’d be an ECR these days? The BSGCT Early Career Development and Collaboration Subcommittee is here to help.
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