Nathan SuekinAdvances in biological scienceWhy did the pig kidney transplant patient Rick Slayman die?It has been all over the news. The world’s “first genetically-edited pig kidney” has been transplanted into a recipient, Rick Slayman, at…May 14May 14
Nathan SuekUsing cell free RNA to predict pregnancy complicationsResearchers recently published an article using cell free RNA (cfRNA) to predict the development of a pregnancy related complication…Jan 26, 2022Jan 26, 2022
Nathan SuekFirst pig to human heart transplant: behind the science of the 10 genes editedIt’s been all over the news: surgeons at the University of Maryland successfully transplanted a pig heart into a human. This interspecies…Jan 19, 20221Jan 19, 20221
Nathan SuekinAdvances in biological scienceMaking CAR T cells in vivo: 3 reasons why this might be its next big breakA team at UPenn just published a extraordinary paper: they generated in vivo CAR T cells to address heart failure. A brief summary of what…Jan 14, 20222Jan 14, 20222
Nathan SuekFighting cancer with an infectionThe era of modern cancer immunotherapy began in the 1890’s with Dr. William Coley who injected attenuated bacterial lysates into tumors…Jul 26, 20191Jul 26, 20191
Nathan SuekWhy CTLA-4 was a big deal for cancer immunotherapyCTLA-4 gets a bad rap these days. While cancer immunotherapy and checkpoint inhibitors are widely celebrated, most people like talking…May 17, 2019May 17, 2019