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Tuberculosis: gene editing could add new power to a 100-year-old vaccine

Tuberculosis dates back more than 9,000 years. It is the most infectious bacterial disease and in 2022 10.6 million people fell ill with it. Of these 23% occurred in Africa. The only vaccine against tuberculosis, the...

26 July, 2024

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7 of the biggest medical breakthroughs in 2023

From new vaccines to the first drugs of their kind for hard-to-treat disorders, 2023 has been a year full of medical breakthroughs. They offer opportunities for people to protect themselves from diseases, slow down the...

2 January, 2024

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Fighting viruses with viruses? ‘Gene drive’ offers new strategy to beat infections

If your immune system or drugs can’t stop a viral infection, why not pit a virus against itself? That’s the provocative idea several labs are pursuing. They are studying whether deliberately introducing engineered...

20 December, 2023

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Illustration of how LUNAS works. Credit: Harm van der Veer

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A new rapid ‘glow-in-the-dark’ test for infectious diseases

Researchers from TU/e, Fontys Hogescholen and Rijnstate Ziekenhuis have developed a new bioluminescence-based sensor that can detect tiny amounts of viral or bacterial DNA/RNA in samples. PCR testing – the highly...

4 April, 2023

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How a CRISPR protein might yield new tests for many viruses

In a first for the genetic toolset known as CRISPR, a recently discovered protein has been found to act as a kind of multipurpose self-destruct system for bacteria, capable of degrading single-stranded RNA, single...

6 January, 2023

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