In this installment of Teach Me in 10, we’re joined by Matt Cooper, co-founder and chief scientific officer at Wugen, Inc. He is also assistant professor of medicine at Washington University. Matt discusses what T cells are and how they can be engineered to recognize cancer cells. This can be achieved by incorporating a specific […]

AKANKSHA SCHWARZ DOESN’T know which shot she got. She’s part of a clinical trial testing Novavax’s experimental Covid-19 vaccine, a blinded study that injected participants with either the real thing or a placebo. But recently, Schwarz became eligible for one of the three vaccines already cleared by the Food and Drug Administration for public use […]

Biotechnology companies and researchers are studying treatments that could help patients with spinal-cord injuries recover abilities to move and function that they have lost. Each year about 18,000 Americans suffer spinal-cord injuries, which are often caused by automobile accidents, falls, violence and sports injuries, according to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center. Depending on […]