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Dad Of The Year Is Selling His WRX STI To Pay For Daughter’s Stem Cell Therapy – Jalopnik

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2017-07-14 NEWS

Jalopnik

Dad Of The Year Is Selling His WRX STI To Pay For Daughter’s Stem Cell Therapy
Jalopnik
Jonathan Corbett from New York loves his Subaru WRX STI. But he loves his daughter more. In what comes off at first as a typical Craigslist ad, he closes by mentioning the car for sale is to raise money for stem cell therapy that he hopes will help
Amazing Dad Is Selling His Subaru WRX STI To Pay For Daughter’s ProcedureThe Drive

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Gene therapy a medical breakthrough in the making
gulfnews.com
Gene therapy is the process whereby doctors use corrective or normal genes to treat a genetic disorder. Genetic disorders and diseases are usually caused by genes that are not functioning properly — a mutation — and as such, with gene therapy

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Harvard Business Review

Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction
Harvard Business Review
Daniel Suarez’s novel Change Agent describes a near future in which synthetic biology has reshaped every industry. Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California

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$2.2M gift to fund stem cell research at Cooper, Rowan & PCOM
Philadelphia Business Journal
The Cooper Foundation, the philanthropic and community development arm of Cooper University Health Care, has received a gift of $2.2 million to fund specialized research. The research project will look at how a unique line of stem cells — known as …

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WBUR

FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Novel ‘Gene Therapy‘ for Leukemia
WBUR
This laboratory is where the T cells of cancer patients are processed and turned into super cells as part of a new gene therapy-based cancer treatment Novartis is a part of. (Brent Stirton/Courtesy of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. via AP). A Food and
Novel leukemia treatment could be 1st US gene therapySumter Item
New cancer gene therapy wins enthusiastic support from federal panelThe Union Leader
‘Astounding’ second-chance cancer drug heading for FDA approvalFOX43.com
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New gene therapy treatment routes for motor neurone disease uncovered in new study
Science Daily
No one has yet attempted to prevent these repeated sequences of RNA from leaving the cell’s nucleus and it opens up new areas of investigation for gene therapy,” explains University of Sheffield’s Dr Guillaume Hautbergue, who conceived the study and