by Emily Burke, PhD | Dec 6, 2018 | Front Page Feature
Putting Nature to Work There’s more than one way to skin a cat. Or make medicine, for that matter. It all depends on the kind—tabby or calico? Small molecule or biologic? One key feature that distinguishes biologic drugs such as monoclonal antibodies from small...
by Emily Burke, PhD | Nov 29, 2018 | Front Page Feature
CRISPR Babies Earlier this week, a research team at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, announced the birth of twin girls whose genomes had been edited using CRISPR/Cas9. The work was done at an in vitrofertilization clinic prior to...
by Emily Burke, PhD | Nov 15, 2018 | Front Page Feature
FURTHER ADVENTURES IN OUR INNER SPACE The most recent Biotech Primer WEEKLY looked at a particularly productive new area of medicine courtesy of our own tiny personal zoo: the microbiome. We considered how resetting a person’s microbiome with a fecal matter transplant...
by Emily Burke, PhD | Nov 8, 2018 | Immunology
You’ll Never Walk Alone Ready for a fascinating, “earthy” truth about ourselves? Our every surface and crevice teems with microbes—inside and out. In fact, bacterial cells in and on our body outnumber human cells by about ten to one. Most people walk around...
by Emily Burke, PhD | Nov 1, 2018 | Drug Development, Uncategorized
Squash That Bug The flu. Need we say more? Why yes. Yes, we do! Last week, we examined all things flu: we talked about the influenza virus structure, how the pesky pathogen makes us feel so lousy, and why the vaccine’s effectiveness isn’t always up to sniff. Er,...
