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The Intriguing Origins Of A Gene Therapy Biopharma – Life Science Leader Magazine

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2018-02-07 NEWS

The Intriguing Origins Of A Gene Therapy Biopharma
Life Science Leader Magazine
The first few years of a company’s history are usually filled with some unusual — and intriguing — milestones. Voyager Therapeutics is no exception. Founded in February 2014, the company took the difficult path of pursuing treatments for debilitating

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2018-02-07 NEWS

Gene-editing advances put us at the dawn of a revolution in a medicine
Genetic Literacy Project
Editor’s note: This is the third in a four-part series examining genetic engineering’s impact on our lives. The final segment will look at synthetic biology and other novel applications. The first explored the potential for CRISPR and gene editing to

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2018-02-07 NEWS

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Creation of new brain cells may be limited, mouse study shows
Medical Xpress
By delicately labeling stem cells in the brains of live mice and recording the fates of their offspring, Obernier discovered that the cells don’t divide in a self-renewing fashion, as the field had predicted. Instead, most stem cell divisions produce