Around five years ago, when the gene editing technology CRISPR was still new, Kamel Khalili started work on ways to use the system to treat and cure HIV. Khalili, director of the Comprehensive NeuroAIDS Center at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, showed then that CRISPR could effectively clear HIV in both cells and in animals.
Daily Archives: July 3, 2019
The FDA says grain-free food could be killing dogs. Here’s what pet owners should know.
Last week the FDA made a scary announcement: grain-free food might be linked to a dangerous heart condition in dogs. This is actually the third update in a saga that’s been going on since July 2018, when the FDA first began investigating the link. But they’re not much closer to an answer, and there’s been a lot of misinformation about the mysterious rise in canine dilated cardiomyopathy circulating in the meantime.
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