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The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that struck down the constitutional right to abortion guaranteed by Roe v. Wade in 1973 is also a huge …
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It was an appropriately hazy afternoon on the day my son Dylan, age two years, seven months, and sixteen days, was diagnosed with autism. The doctor was empathetic but serious …
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MEXICO CITY — Back in 2019, while she worked for the biotech Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Claudia Gonzaga heard a rumor that thrilled her. The company would begin sequencing and analyzing the …
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When coronary arteries are blocked, starving the heart of blood, there are good medications and treatments to deploy, from statins to stents. Not so for heart failure, the leading factor …
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Precision medicine — tailoring a treatment to an individual’s disease — requires understanding the individual’s biological characteristics. Although medicine and biotech are making significant progress in this area, they have …
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Twenty-three years ago, the field of gene therapy was bursting with the promise of breakthrough treatments. Then it was almost instantly derailed by the death of an 18-year-old clinical trial …
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As a young girl, Gabriela Piqueras wasn’t quite like the other children in her class. She couldn’t play with her friends, because any minor bump would cause a large bruise …
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Through their foundation, Allie LaForce and Joe Smith have so far helped families have 17 healthy babies. The group works with would-be parents who have the fatal neurodegenerative condition Huntington’s …
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Will gene therapy ever live up to expectations? Can anyone break up the genomics monopoly? And is innovation actually bad for biotech? We cover all that and more this week …
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