Therapeutics Role in Inflammation

Therapeutics Role in Inflammation

The inflammatory response is critical to our survival, helping us heal from injury and defend against disease. Chronic inflammation, however, has implications in a number of widespread and devastating diseases, including atherosclerosis, asthma, and arthritis. New... Read more
CRISPR Gene Therapeutics in Humans

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: 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
Microbiome Therapeutics for Humans

Microbiome Therapeutics for Humans

Therapeutics targeting ways to influence the human microbiome to either treat or prevent disease has been of substantially growing interest in the past decade, and as of late, with a lot of financing activity to back it up.  Human microbiome therapeutics may hold the... Read more