Genetic technologies have the potential to help solve the ever-growing challenges of food insecurity and global health. But for this potential to be met, regulations that hinder scientific innovation ...

Regulators are supposed to abide by society's “bargain” with them: Civil servants are granted lifetime tenure and protected from political pressure and retaliation, and in return, they are supposed to ...

The first peer-reviewed journal in the field of human gene therapy, providing all-inclusive coverage of the research, methods, and clinical developments that are driving today's explosion of gene ...

One of the greatest transformations in modern medicine arguably began with a corned beef sandwich. It was the late 1960s, and new Department of Medicine Chair Lloyd Hollingsworth “Holly” Smith Jr., MD ...

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The development of early monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapies centered around the hybridoma platform requires the production of target antigen or immunogen and animal immunizations. This means there ...

Despite the hundreds of millions of vials of blood drawn every year for medical testing, scientists have only scratched the surface of its diagnostic potential. The blood proteome — which includes all ...

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