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What’s a life worth in dollars and cents? Should that influence who gets treated for expensive disease treatments?
Austin was three years old and Max was a newborn when their mother, Jenn McNary, learned they had a rare ...
Cheaper gene editing poised to change the world ‘and even extend human lifespans’
Increasingly inexpensive genetic sequencing and engineering tools could upend everything from health care to fuel. Why it matters: This bio ...
Can we afford gene therapy’s million-dollar price tags?
[4-year-old] Caspian was born with a rare, inherited eye disorder called Leber congenital amaurosis, which results in the progressive deterioration ...
How food companies’ switch to non-GMO ingredients could hurt the poor
Consumers have paid significantly higher prices for non-GM foods compared with conventional counterparts in four categories, a new analysis shows ...
Who should pay for million-dollar life-saving gene therapies?
While life-changing and life-saving gene therapies are going on the market, they have price tags that many cannot pay for ...
Gene therapy challenge: How much should it cost and how do we pay for it?
When evaluating the high prices of one-time gene therapy treatments, should we look to the costs of organ transplants when ...
