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CRISPR: Good or Bad?
Diseases such as cancer, arthritis, diabetes, and so many more have caused pain and struggles that so many have to endure when they are...
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With finals just a couple weeks away and stress levels rising, it seems like the perfect time to find ways to lower one’s stress. If you are...
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Are children not getting sick as much as they should? Kids seem to be pretty good vectors for illness, as such it seems unreasonable that an...
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Diseases such as cancer, arthritis, diabetes, and so many more have caused pain and struggles that so many have to endure when they are...
It is fascinating how researchers have begun using Patient Derived Xenograft models for researching tumor microenvironments. One of the biggest issues I found working with PDX models was that they could really only be cultured for 1-2 cycles before needing to be implanted into another organism as with subcutaneous implantation of a tumor PDX model in mice. Utilizing the 3D matrix to overcome some of the scaffolding issues is ingenious, but I would love to know how they account for possible metabolic and genomic changes due to other factors such as outside cytokine signaling. Definitely an awesome avenue for expanding the field of personalized medicine. Thank you!
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