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FDA budget battles, prisons’ sobering Covid response & BIO’s CEO search is on

23.05.2023

You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis. Sign up here to receive this newsletter in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. House committee sets up for budget fight UPDATE: …

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Biotech

Gene therapy death not caused by CRISPR, investigators confirm

19.05.2023

Terry Horgan, the 27-year-old patient who died eight days after receiving a CRISPR therapy custom-built for him, likely suffered a fatal innate immune response to the virus used to deliver …

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Biotech / First Opinion

Opinion: Three misconceptions about the accelerated drug approval pathway

10.05.2023

On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration’s Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee will meet to discuss the Biologics License Application for Sarepta Therapeutics’ gene therapy delandistrogene moxeparvovec for …

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Biotech / First Opinion

Opinion: The IRA’s nonsensical distinction between small- and large-molecule drugs

09.05.2023

Thanks to advances in science, notably the completion of the Human Genome Project 20 years ago, we are able to treat diseases more effectively than ever before. Researchers have more …

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Biotech / Health / Pharma

‘Robbing Peter to pay Paul’: Obesity experts debate risks of new weight loss drugs

08.05.2023

Amid rising demand for drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic, and Mounjaro that can lead to significant weight loss, some obesity experts are concerned about the drugs’ costs — both to patients’ …

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Biotech / First Opinion

Opinion: Clinical trials for Alzheimer’s treatments need to include people with Down syndrome

05.05.2023

“I cannot tell you how much it means to me that my extra chromosome might lead to the answer to Alzheimer’s,” Frank Stephens, a self-advocate with Down syndrome, told Congress …

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‘Are we better off with the information?’: Experts spar over the benefits of liquid biopsy to catch cancer

04.05.2023

New technologies are making it possible to detect cancer earlier than ever — but the field is still fiercely divided on whether these liquid biopsy tests are yet ready for …

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Biotech

For Eli Lilly’s head scientist, Alzheimer’s results cap a 25-year scientific quest

03.05.2023

If you flip to the 1,031st page of the May 1998 edition of the Journal of Cell Biology, you’ll find the first scientific byline for Daniel Skovronsky, then a young …

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Biotech

Now 18, the first child to ever receive CAR-T cancer therapy is ready for a new identity

03.05.2023

The Food and Drug Administration approves dozens of cancer drugs every year, but the vast majority of them offer gradual improvements. A treatment might shrink tumors in a third of …

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