Tag: Life science
Is CRISPR as Accurate as We Think?
CRISPR has been the talk of the medicine world for a while because of its incredible accuracy for gene editing. The hope is that CRISPR will cure genetic diseases and end all suffering caused by them. Companies have been pouring money into the potential that this technology holds. But a new study has suggested that ...
Exact Moment a Tau Protein Starts to Become Toxic
Alzheimer’s Disease is characterized by Amyloid plaques and tangles, which are basically a bunch of proteins that are folded into a shape allowing multiple copies of the protein to stick together. Interestingly, a new study states that they have discovered the precise moment that these proteins start to become neurodegenerative. Even though over half a ...
Editing Cancer Cells to Fight Cancer Cells
CRISPR it the revolutionary gene-editing tool that is taking over the health and medicine world. It is now being used as a cancer-fighting mechanism through the editing the tumour cells to kill other cancer cells. Cancer cells have this strange “rehoming” behaviour where they return to the original tumour after metastasizing – or spreading to ...
New Organ Discovered?
So, I thought that we knew the inner workings of the human body pretty well, but it turns out we only thought we did. A press release came out on the 27th of March stating that a new organ may have been discovered! It has been called the interstitium, and it’s found just below the ...
