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Major breakthroughs often come with great obstacles. Here, Kan discusses major challenges in the development of novel therapies employing stem cells for in utero gene therapy. 🧪
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Happy birthday, Yuet Wai Kan! 🎉
🧪Kan received the 1991 Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award for his application of recombinant DNA technology for prenatal and predictive diagnosis of genetic diseases, including sickle cell anemia and thalassemia.
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After Kan took a faculty job at UCSF, “he streaked ahead in prenatal diagnosis,” Kan’s former colleague pediatric hematologist David Nathan says. In this feature, find out how Kan’s diagnostic approach led to tests for other genetic diseases, including cystic fibrosis.
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Abel Wolman was born #OTD in 1892.
🧪 Wolman won a 1960 Public Service Lasker Award. As a consultant to industrial companies, governmental advisor, and Johns Hopkins University staff member, he made significant contributions to environmental hygiene and #PublicHealth: http://ow.ly/PeDN30oD1CU
Maclyn McCarty was born #OTD in 1911. 🧪
🧬 McCarty won a Special Achievement Lasker Award in 1994. He made seminal investigations which revealed that DNA is the chemical substance of heredity, ushering in a new era of contemporary genetics: http://ow.ly/YfwW30oD1CQ
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🧪Researchers at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute & NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre used data from >14M single cells & nuclei from 47 tissues to build the "Hormone Cell Atlas," a map of the human endocrine system at cellular resolution, per Science Magazine study: https://ow.ly/Fnhi50Z90Nz
Francis Crick was born #OTD in 1916.
🧪Crick won a Basic Medical Research Lasker Award in 1960 for his contributions to the famous discovery of DNA’s double helical structure. Cambridge University Press
🧬 Discover how understanding DNA revolutionized biology: https://ow.ly/WVuu50Z5ebQ
A huge thank you to everyone who entered Lasker's first-ever Video Contest. 🌟
🎬 🧪We loved seeing early-career physician-scientists share their creativity and passion for biomedical research. We'll announce the winners, to be featured in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, on July 15!
June is #CataractAwarenessMonth, which highlights the leading cause of vision loss worldwide.
Cataract surgery used to be an ordeal that upended patients’ lives. Then in the 1960s, Lasker Laureate Charles Kelman transformed the surgery into an outpatient procedure. 🧪
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MAY 15, 2024Read about the Lasker Laureates whose work helped illuminate, treat, or diagnose genetic diseases.
The Video Contest is now closed. Winner(s) will be announced mid-July.
About the Contest
The contest invites early-career scientists and clinicians from the United States and around the world to showcase their passion for biology and medicine. Participants should demonstrate how their creativity and innovative thinking can help address some
DEC. 4, 2017Lasker Laureate Yuet Wai Kan discusses major challenges in the development of novel therapies employing stem cells for the treatment of sickle cell disease and thalassemia.
"You want people to be autonomous agents. You want them to say, 'Well, this is a group project. I'm going to do this.'" 🧪
2023 Lasker Laureate John Jumper shares his guiding principles for efficient and effective communication in a team. 🤝 Google DeepMind :bot:
In the early 1960s, cataract surgery was an ordeal that upended patients’ lives. During the operation, the surgeon made a cut that extended halfway around the eye’s front surface, reached in with forceps, and gently pulled out the cloudy lens. After the operation, patients spent up to 10 days in a hospital bed, sometimes with their
