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CAR-NK cells: promising for cancer therapy

Drug Target Review

They recognise ‘cell stress molecules’ on the surface of infected, old, injured and cancerous cells without the need for complex pre-stimulation signals of the adaptive immune system (eg, T cells). NK cells can be readily extracted from umbilical cord blood or peripheral blood of adult donors.

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Measure Cell Metabolism with Microplate Readers | BMG LABTECH

BMG Labtech

In biology , scientific research on cell metabolism focuses on different topics such as understanding the fundamental metabolic processes, metabolic changes and their role in diseases (including cancer cell and tumor metabolism), the development of therapies, the identification of unknown metabolic processes and metabolites, etc.

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New advances in hormone replacement therapy set to transform care

Drug Target Review

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for low hormone levels is one of the oldest treatments utilised in Western medicine and can be traced back centuries. 6 Both testosterone and oestrogen are also used for gender-affirming therapy. Likarda initially developed CSS to overcome the lack of effective delivery systems for cell therapies.

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Levers for Biological Progress

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Molecular biology has only been around for about 80 years, and tools to study biomolecules (such as DNA and RNA sequencing, or proteomics) have only existed for about half of that time. We are in the absolute infancy of molecular and cell biology, and this means there’s a lot of stuff we still don’t understand.

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