PR News Wire…. BLUE BELL, Pa., Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: INO), which is advancing synthetic vaccines to fight cancers and infectious diseases, announced today that VGX-3100, its investigational SynCon® vaccine for treating cervical dysplasia and cancer caused by human papillomavirus, was highlighted by Fierce Vaccines as one of 10 […]
Newly identified DNA repair defect linked to increased risk of leukemia relapse
By Summer Freeman St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists tie low levels of a key DNA repair protein to loss of regulatory genes in a study that offers new clues about why acute lymphoblastic leukemia sometimes returns A newly identified defect in a DNA repair system might leave some young leukemia patients less likely to […]
HPV Testing: What reliable short-sequence genotyping looks like
By Norma Erickson You have heard a lot of talk about HPV testing. There are currently two HPV tests available to the American medical consumer, both of which provide questionable results. According to the National Cancer institute, the only reliable hpv tests employ short-target DNA sequencing. At least that is the impression left by the […]