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Gene therapy becomes reality, but price tag is estimated at $1 million – Ahram Online

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2017-11-19 NEWS

Gene therapy becomes reality, but price tag is estimated at $1 million
Ahram Online
Spark’s Chief Financial Officer Stephen Webster said that gene therapy was upending conventional thinking by offering a one-time cure, rather than years of repeat prescriptions, but health systems were struggling to keep pace. “Gene therapy creates an …

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2017-11-19 NEWS

5 Synthetic Biology Startups Making ‘Fake’ Food
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When you consider things like the fact pigs are at least as smart as dogs and chimpanzees, eating can present some ethical dilemmas. Synthetic biology startups are brewing plant-based foods that imitate the real thing, taking moral ambiguity off the

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2017-11-19 NEWS

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Seattle Children’s recruiting for immunotherapy trial
KREM.com
Dr. Rebecca Gardner and her team at Seattle Children’s hospital are recruiting kids diagnosed with leukemia for a first-in-the-nation trial called PLAT-05 Immunotherapy treatment. This comes on the heels of multiple success stories as they continue to

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2017-11-18 NEWS

Gulf Times

QU hosts workshop on tissue engineering, stem cell tech
Gulf Times
Themed ‘Tissue Engineering and Stem Cell Technologies’, the event aimed to discuss tissue engineering and stem cell technologies, a popular area of research with the potential to cure serious diseases – including cardiovascular, orthopaedic and

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2017-11-18 NEWS

Gulf Times

QU hosts workshop on tissue engineering, stem cell tech
Gulf Times
Themed ‘Tissue Engineering and Stem Cell Technologies’, the event aimed to discuss tissue engineering and stem cell technologies, a popular area of research with the potential to cure serious diseases – including cardiovascular, orthopaedic and

and more »