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Today's Clinical Lab 2025 Cancer & Precision Medicine print issue

'The Critical Role of the Clinical Lab'

Miriam Bergeret, MSc

The Today's Clinical Lab 2025 Cancer & Precision Medicine print issue features cancer screening successes, emerging technologies, and advances in targeted treatments

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Gene Therapies for Retinal Diseases Head to Clinical Trials

Jennifer Welsh

Inherited retinal diseases cause vision loss and blindness. New gene therapy trials have improved sight for some

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Rewiring Biological Time and Aging with Epigenome Editing

Charles A. Gersbach, PhD

The bright, new future of therapeutic epigenome editing is already on our doorstep

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Researchers Move Toward Off-the-Shelf CAR T-Cell Therapy for Cancer

Today's Clinical Lab

New breakthrough from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center shows how off-the-shelf CAR T cells from healthy donors can be modified to fight cancer without immune rejection

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Applying Next-Generation In Vitro Antibody Libraries to Drug Discovery

Andrew Bradbury, PhD

In vitro libraries have recently demonstrated the ability to deliver antibodies with affinities comparable to those obtained by immunization

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Precarious Prescriptions: Lab Testing and Coverage for GLP-1 Drugs

Michael Schubert, PhD

Julie Schulz, MD, MPH, discusses GLP-1 receptor agonists, the lab’s role in prescribing, and the future of the GLP-1 drug industry

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Psilocybin Therapy Helps Clinicians Process COVID-19 Despair

University of Washington School of Medicine

In a novel study of front-line providers, the psychedelic drug reduced symptoms of depression more effectively than a placebo

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Enhancing the Precision of CRISPR-Based Gene Editing

Today's Clinical Lab

A new interdisciplinary project at Lehigh University aims to leverage AI and advanced modeling to refine CRISPR gene editing, enhancing safety and expanding its medical applications