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UK Clears Glaxo’s $700000 ‘Bubble Boy Disease’ Gene Therapy – Bloomberg

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2018-01-03 NEWS

Bloomberg

UK Clears Glaxo’s $700000 ‘Bubble Boy Disease’ Gene Therapy
Bloomberg
The U.K.’s thrifty health authority has cleared its most expensive medicine ever — a $700,000 GlaxoSmithKline Plc treatment for an illness known as “bubble-boy disease.” But the overall cost to the country’s medical system won’t be as eye-popping as

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2018-01-03 NEWS

UC Berkeley

CRISPR put to work to save chocolate from devastation
UC Berkeley
Chocolate is forever, right? UC Berkeley scientists, using the revolutionary gene-editing tool CRISPR, are working to make it so, as climate change threatens the cacao plant’s favorite growing sites. In the lab of Myeong-Je Cho, the director of plant
Chocolate could completely disappear within decades due to extinction of cacao plantsBGR
Chocolate is Going Extinct, But Scientists Have a Wild Plan to Save itInverse
Chocolate to become extinct in 40 years?Pakistan Today
Jezebel –MarieClaire.com –Markets Insider –NOAA Climate.gov
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2018-01-03 NEWS

UC Berkeley

CRISPR put to work to save chocolate from devastation
UC Berkeley
Chocolate is forever, right? UC Berkeley scientists, using the revolutionary gene-editing tool CRISPR, are working to make it so, as climate change threatens the cacao plant’s favorite growing sites. In the lab of Myeong-Je Cho, the director of plant
Chocolate could completely disappear within decades due to extinction of cacao plantsBGR
Chocolate is Going Extinct, But Scientists Have a Wild Plan to Save itInverse
Chocolate to become extinct in 40 years?Pakistan Today
Jezebel –MarieClaire.com –Markets Insider –NOAA Climate.gov
all 87 news articles »
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2018-01-02 NEWS

Shore Orthopaedic’s Dr. Charles Krome offers stem cell therapy for orthopedic conditions: 4 takeaways
Becker’s Orthopedic & Spine
Charles Krome, DO, of Somers Point, N.J.-based Shore Orthopaedic, leverages stem cells to treat various orthopedic conditions, according to Cape May County Herald. Here are four takeaways: 1. Dr. Krome combines stem cells from donated umbilical cord

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2018-01-02 NEWS

Washington Post

New cancer treatments have perplexing side effects
Washington Post
When Diane Legg began seeing black specks in her right eye, she went to an ophthalmologist near her home in Amesbury, Mass. He said she had a torn retina and needed laser surgery. Legg’s oncologist was skeptical. He was worried that Legg had eye

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