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Report: Price for blindness gene therapy Luxturna is ‘four times too high’ at $850,000

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The $850,000 list price for a new medicine that treats a genetic form of childhood blindness is about four times too high ...
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CRISPR setback? Our immune system may attack the treatment used with the popular gene editor

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A new paper points to a previously unknown hurdle for scientists racing to develop therapies using the revolutionary genome-editing tool ...
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IVF ethics: What if your only viable embryo has a genetic disease?

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[A]n emerging ethical morass in the field of reproductive medicine: what to do when patients seeking to get pregnant select ...
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Smarter children tend to live longer: Is there a genetic connection?

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Across a sweeping range of causes of death — from injuries to dementia to heart disease — being smarter as ...
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Tom Brady, ‘super human’? How genetics may contribute to his success

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[NFL quarterback Tom Brady's] age-39 season was statistically among the best of his 17-year career with the New England Patriots...What’s ...
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Who needs a dentist? Our teeth could repair themselves through stem cell stimulation

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The stem cells in our teeth can be energized to fill in chips, cracks, and cavities, researchers say, and the ...
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Field trial of Zika-fighting, GMO mosquito approved in Florida Keys, but new location to be selected

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A proposal to release genetically engineered mosquitoes for the first time in the United States cleared an important threshold Saturday, with ...
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Could outreach by scientists to religious communities relieve tensions over human genome editing?

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Is the human genome sacred? Does editing it violate the idea that we’re made in God’s image or, perhaps worse, ...
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Loosening regulations on stem cell therapies could hurt and help patients

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On both coasts, campaigns ...

Boston hospitals test stem-cell-based therapies for the first time

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a step that ...
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CRISPR may revolutionize disease diagnostics

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For what scientists say ...
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Late bloomer? Genes can predict when you lost your virginity, new study finds

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As many a pining ...

DNA from cancer patients could help treat future cases

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Cancer patients’ DNA holds ...
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