https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/gene-therapy-rare-diseases/101405506
Robert Lamberth was born with a genetic disorder that meant his blood didn’t clot properly.
Throughout his life, he received regular transfusions of the clotting factor his body was unable to produce in adequate amounts.
But about three years ago he received a single injection that changed everything.
This is the equipment needed to continue and expand the research Professor Rasko and his team are doing to try and find a cure for cancer and other inherited diseases.
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Apparatus for analysing protein samples for our gene and cancer projects. This equipment uses “electrophoresis” to separate proteins based on electrical charge and molecular weight.
Our ‘tools of the trade’, these pipettes enable us to accurately measure and dispense very small volumes of liquid for molecular and cellular biology experiments.
These polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machines are based on a Nobel Prize winning discovery. They operate as ‘DNA factories’ enabling large amounts of DNA to be synthesised specifically for the purpose of measuring gene expression or molecular cloning.
This heating incubator enables simultaneous heating and mixing for different sized reaction tubes. Importantly this allows excellent reproducibility for our demanding molecular biology experiments.
For decades, we’ve been anticipating the dawn of regenerative medicine. Again and again, we’ve been promised that stem cells will soon cure just about every ill imaginable. If not tomorrow, then the next day, or the day after that, and so on. We’re still waiting.
This book is an antidote to hype and a salve to sooth the itch for stem-cell salvation. In it, Professor John Rasko, a leading physician-scientist, and writer-historian Carl Power take us on a wild historical tour of this scandal-prone field. They expose all the dirty little secrets that the hype merchants prefer to ignore – the blunders and setbacks, confusions and delusions, tricks and lies.
Is there any good news? Which of the many promises of stem-cell research have been kept? And what of the future? Rasko and Power insist that we can only know where we’re going if we have a sense of where we’ve been. Their study tears down the hype surrounding stem cells in order to reveal what’s still worth hoping for.
Prof. Rasko presented at the first ”ATMP world tour” in April, 2021. The event aimed to highlight world leading activities within Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMP) and the partnerships, infrastructures and competences that were critical to their success to MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE.
In this presentation, John talks about implementing clinical trials at the department of Cell and Molecular Therapies at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
