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Can vaccines be supercharged by CRISPR, creating ‘one-and-done’ virus protection?

Sharon Begley | STAT | 
Vaccines are risky or ineffective in people with compromised immune systems, they don’t even exist for several viral diseases, and ...
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This small startup wants to change FDA clinical trials by making control groups unnecessary

Matthew Herper | STAT | 
Could a startup founded by two guys in their 20s change the way medical researchers study patients? The Food and ...
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US government’s BOLD initiative seeks to close the African-American Alzheimer’s gap

Karen Lincoln | STAT | 
Alzheimer’s is a public health crisis for which Congress has thankfully put aside its differences long enough to pass the ...
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Pioneering ‘refugee’ from gene therapy’s darker days ‘kept the faith’

Damian Garde | STAT | 
Gene therapy, now a pillar of biotechnology with the potential to cure deadly diseases, was once a cautionary tale of ...
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Did China’s government fund the controversial ‘CRISPR babies’ experiment?

Jane Qiu | STAT | 
Three government institutions in China, including the nation’s science ministry, may have funded the “CRISPR babies” study that led to ...
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‘Genome profiling’—not gene editing—could offer easiest path to smarter babies

Erik Parens, Paul Appelbaum, Wendy Chung | STAT | 
For the foreseeable future, editing embryos to enhance IQ is a sci-fi fantasy. A different approach aimed at enhancing IQ ...
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Esketamine could soon be approved for depression, prompting ‘excitement and hesitation’

Megan Thielking | STAT | 
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to decide in the coming weeks whether to approve esketamine, which would become the ...
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Rethinking cancer care: Home-based treatments may be right around the corner

Justin Bekelman, Nathan Handley | STAT | 
Imagine having cancer and being told that most of your treatment will happen in your home instead of a high-tech ...
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Viewpoint: It’s time for a debate on precision medicine and its failed promises

Michael Joyner, Nigel Paneth | STAT | 
Although some niche applications have been found for precision medicine, and gene therapy is now becoming a reality for a ...
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Shortcomings of new cystic fibrosis treatments illustrate the complexity of some genetic diseases

Andrew Joseph | STAT | 
Josh Hillman, a 23-year-old Harvard Law student from Alabama, has cystic fibrosis, the progressive genetic disease that causes frequent lung ...
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Researchers launch quest to understand why mental health treatments do or don’t work

Megan Thielking | STAT | 
Successful mental health treatments can function like a conversation: The brain hears some kind of message — whether it’s from ...
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CRISPR-based drugs face tricky manufacturing problem

Jim Burns | STAT | 
There are two key challenges in delivering a CRISPR-Cas9 therapy so it is effective in the body: It must be ...
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Viewpoint: Human gene-editing ethics should not ‘be left to scientists alone’

Nina Frahm, Tess Doezema | STAT | 
There is one important takeaway from the controversy [about He Jiankui’s gene-edited babies] that seems to have gone overlooked in ...
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Controversial brain preservation company Nectome seeks second, more ethical, chance

Sharon Begley | STAT | 
Robert McIntyre would like to get a few things straight. That “waiting list” of people plunking down $10,000 to have ...
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Precision medicine for dogs? Silicon Valley startup wants to make it happen

Rebecca Robins | STAT | 
When pet dogs are diagnosed with cancer, they typically get surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation — that is, of course, if ...
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How your history with the flu could shape your body’s response to vaccines

Helen Branswell | STAT | 
If you’ve ever gotten a flu shot — and then, later that season, gotten the flu — you were more ...
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Questions arise over US scientist’s role in CRISPR baby controversy

Jane Qiu | STAT | 
An American scientist at Rice University was far more involved in the widely condemned “CRISPR babies” experiment than has previously ...
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‘CRISPR babies’ prompt review of international gene-editing guidelines: They ‘were not clear enough’

Sharon Begley | STAT | 
Less than two years after producing an exhaustive report on human genome editing, the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and the National ...
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Improving personalized medicine may demand more diversity in clinical trials

Edward Abrahams, Jane Delgado | STAT | 
Hispanic Americans have higher levels of diabetes and less access to health care services, yet they live on average about ...
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Viewpoint: We’re letting bureaucracy get in the way of diagnostic innovation

Rina Wolf | STAT | 
Should we be making it easier for companies to bring new tests to market, rather than having a process that ...
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International treaty could threaten genetics research on ebola, other infectious diseases

Helen Branswell | STAT | 
There is something that is weighing heavily on the minds of some infectious diseases scientists these days. ... It’s an ...
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‘Family duty’ could explain why so many Chinese couples signed up for controversial ‘CRISPR baby’ experiment

Wendy Tang | STAT | 
Young adults in China feel a powerful cultural obligation to marry and have kids, but that life plan suddenly looks ...
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Algorithm identifies genetic mutations with just a photo

Kate Sheridan | STAT | 
Some people’s faces — or even just a photo of them — hint at the genes they carry. And now, ...
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New cousin to deadly Ebola virus discovered in bats in China

Helen Branswell | STAT | 
The notorious filovirus family — which includes such dangerous actors as the Ebola and Marburg viruses — seems to just keep ...
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Controversial Chinese gene-editing scientist downplays reports suggesting he could face death penalty

Sharon Begley | STAT | 
The Chinese scientist who shocked the world in November by announcing that twin girls had been born from embryos that he had created ...
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Do we really need a more potent, and more addictive, opioid?

Ed Silverman | STAT | 
In the midst of a national opioid crisis, how badly do we need another formidable painkiller? This vexing question has ...
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How 100-year-old tissue samples could rewrite the Spanish flu’s deadly history

Helen Branswell | STAT | 
Late one night Michael Worobey began poking around on the internet, looking for descendants of a World War I British ...
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Video: Why infectious diseases are so troublesome for air travelers

Alex Hogan | STAT | 
When Emirates Flight EK203 landed at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport last September, it did not proceed to its ...
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