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Is $500k Gene Therapy a Bargain? (MIT Tech Review – MedPage Today

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2017-09-21 NEWS

Is $500k Gene Therapy a Bargain? (MIT Tech Review
MedPage Today
A half million dollar price tag isn’t often a bargain. But when the cost of treatment for certain diseases is tallied, suddenly pricey gene therapy could seem like a “steal,” reports MIT Technology Review. Take the case of sickle cell disease, which

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2017-09-21 NEWS

‘Labyrinth’ chip could help monitor aggressive cancer stem cells
Medical Xpress
Cancer stem cells are fluid in their gene expression, transitioning from stem-like cells that are good at surviving in the blood to more ordinary cell types that are better at growing and dividing. Conventional cell targeting, by grabbing proteins

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2017-09-21 NEWS

OHSU gene therapy pioneer Shoukhrat Mitalipov headlines Health Care of the Future event
Portland Business Journal
Speakers include OHSU’s Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov, whose groundbreaking work on gene mutations is getting global recognition; OHSU’s SVP for research Daniel Dorsa; IBM Watson Health’s VP of global partnerships Kathy McGroddy-Goetz; Intel’s global …

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Unique gene therapy prevents, reverses multiple sclerosis in animal model
University of Florida
Multiple sclerosis can be inhibited or reversed using a novel gene therapy technique that stops the disease’s immune response in mouse models, University of Florida Health researchers have found. By combining a brain-protein gene and an existing …
Gene Therapy Treats and Reverses MS Symptoms in Mouse ModelTechnology Networks

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