Human eggs use chemical attraction to 'choose' sperm
The fluid that surrounds an egg when it is released acts as a chemical attractant to sperm, but may also select sperm from certain males over others...
The fluid that surrounds an egg when it is released acts as a chemical attractant to sperm, but may also select sperm from certain males over others...
Two trials assessing gene therapy for blood cancer have been put on hold by the US Food and Drug Administration, following a patient fatality...
Over a 100 new genes that may be essential for cancer immunotherapy to work have been identified using a new CRISPR-based screen...
Two trials of a new gene therapy have successfully treated blood cancers in patients who were unresponsive to standard treatment...
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Researchers have successfully treated a woman with colon cancer using her own immune cells to target a cancer-causing gene that had previously been considered 'undruggable'...
A new gene therapy technique using microRNAs has successfully prevented the spread of breast cancer in mice...
A new genetic test could predict which patients with early-stage breast cancer patients would benefit from chemotherapy...
Researchers in the UK have discovered two key genes capable of predicting 10-year disease-specific survival outcomes in breast cancer patients...
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