Precision Therapy

Roche teams up with Alcyone LifeSciences in Precision Drug Delivery

December 25, 2018

Roche (OTCQX:RHHBY) will collaborate with privately held Alcyone Lifesciences in precision drug delivery aimed at optimizing intrathecal (injected into the spinal canal) therapies and developing antisense oligonucleotide treatments for [more...]

Custom-sized Nanocontainers Help Drug Delivery

April 17, 2016

In a recently patented NIST method for making precisely sized nanoscale capsules, a stream of fluid (isopropyl alcohol) containing dissolved biomolecules (the building blocks for the capsules) is focused by streams of water on either side. [more...]

Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope Of Precision Therapy For Blindness

February 7, 2016

Skin cells from a patient with X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa were transformed into induced pluripotent stem cells and the blindness-causing point mutation in the RPGR gene was corrected using CRISPR/Cas9 (Image credit: Vinit Mahajan) A [more...]