CRISPR Gene Therapeutics in Humans
Until recently, gene editing was extremely expensive and took several months, even years. However, with the discovery of CRISPR/Cas-9, costs have shrunk by 99% and tests can be run in days/weeks. Put very simply, the CRISPR/Cas9 technology is effectively a pair of... Read more
Alzheimer’s Disease: Therapeutics
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) presents many challenges at the individual, family and health system levels. From the therapeutics perspective, AD presents the highest failure rate for drug development of any disease indication being studied today. However, there are... Read more
Traumatic Brain Injury Diagnostics
Traumatic Brain Injury is arguably one of the most complex disorders in the human body. Recent advances in 3D imaging technologies and blood-based biomarker identification have proven to be significant advances towards detection and diagnosis, but it’s merely... Read more
Senolytics
As we age, our cells enter a state called senescence. These harmful cells do not support the cells of which they are a part, and as we grow older, their accumulation is one of the key factors of aging. A new class of drugs known as senolytics focuses on the... Read more
Enabling the Next Generation of Healthcare IT
It’s been a long time coming, but technology is finally transforming the healthcare industry, enabling functions and services that were all but unimaginable just a few years ago. Case in point: data.
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