Content by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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MIT Researchers Find a More Precise Way to Edit the Genome
MIT researchers have dramatically lowered the error rate of prime editing, a technique that holds potential for treating many genetic disorders
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New Gene Editing Tool Rapidly Screens Cancer Mutations
With the new technique, researchers hope to identify mutations that could be targeted with new cancer therapies
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Priming Agents Maximize ctDNA Availability for Liquid Biopsies
The advance makes ctDNA detection in blood samples easier, enabling earlier cancer diagnosis and treatment
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Deep Learning Models Find a New Class of Antibiotics
These antibiotics could kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a notorious bacterium that causes chronic infections and death
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Engineers Boost Signals from Fluorescent Sensors
The advance allows the particles to be placed deeper within biological tissue, which could aid with cancer diagnosis
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Technique to Recover Lost Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Information
Boosting the efficiency of single-cell RNA-sequencing helps reveal subtle differences between healthy and dysfunctional cells
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Technique Reveals Whether Models of Patient Risk Are Accurate
While risk models are useful in most cases, they do not make accurate predictions for many patients, which can lead doctors to choose ineffective or unnecessarily risky treatments for some patients
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Storing Medical Information below the Skin's Surface
Specialized dye, delivered along with a vaccine, could enable 'on-patient' storage of vaccination history
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A Targeted Approach to Treating Glioma
With a new method, surgeons would remove a tumor, then implant microparticles that attack the remaining cancer cellsPage 1 of 1
