CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a natural defense system in bacteria that scientists have adapted into a powerful gene-editing tool. This ...

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AbbVie has scrapped an asset from its ongoing collaboration with Dragonfly Therapeutics, a spokesperson for the Chicago ...

In a promising advance for cancer treatment, Northwestern University scientists have re-engineered the molecular structure of ...

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Advances in cancer immunotherapy from immune checkpoint modulation to adoptive cell transfer of tumour-infiltrating ...

A team of Northwestern investigators has discovered novel molecular underpinnings of a common oncogenic mutation in cancer, ...