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Gene therapies are proving their worth, but with million dollar price tags, it’s not clear who should pay for them – Rappler

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2018-03-31 NEWS

Rappler

Gene therapies are proving their worth, but with million dollar price tags, it’s not clear who should pay for them
Rappler
If you were born with a rare form of blindness, there is now a treatment for you that may restore your eyesight. That’s because gene therapies became a clinical reality in 2017. Yet many people with rare diseases that could be treated in this way may

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2018-03-30 NEWS

MIT Technology Review

CRISPR may not cause hundreds of rogue mutations after all
MIT Technology Review
CRISPR might be too dangerous to use in humans. The findings hadn’t been observed by other researchers and immediately drew criticism from people including executives at the big three gene-editing companies, CRISPR Therapeutics, Editas Medicine
CRISPR paper that sent stocks tumbling is retractedSTAT
CRISPR-altered plants are not going to be regulated (for now)Fast Company
Science Journal Retracts Paper That Sparked CRISPR PanicGizmodo
WIRED –OZY –Livemint
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2018-03-30 NEWS

STAT

CRISPR paper that sent stocks tumbling is retracted
STAT
scientific paper that purported to lay bare serious flaws in the gene-editing tool known as CRISPR and briefly tanked shares 1 of genome-editing companies has been retracted by its publisher. The paper 2, published last year in Nature Methods, claimed
Science Journal Retracts Paper That Sparked CRISPR PanicGizmodo
Crispr’d Food, Coming Soon to a Supermarket Near You | WIREDWIRED
You Could Be Eating CRISPR Food in Five Years | Fast Forward | OZYOZY
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2018-03-30 NEWS

FierceBiotech

Disarming cancer’s defenses to improve immunotherapy
FierceBiotech
“Using checkpoint blockade has revolutionized the field of cancer immunotherapy, but it is not enough to simply stop the cancer from evading the immune system, we need to boost the immune system to fight the cancer off. By combining checkpoint blockade