Texas judge may block access to abortion pills. Here’s how that ruling could disrupt the US approval system for all drugs

Texas judge may block access to abortion pills. Here’s how that ruling could disrupt the US approval system for all drugs

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‘A slippery slope’: A looming nationwide abortion pill ban could undermine the entire drug approval system ...
Many people carry severe disease genes that should be deadly — but they survive and are healthy. How?

Many people carry severe disease genes that should be deadly — but they survive and are healthy. How?

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The result didn’t make sense. The researcher kept scanning the mouse’s pregnant belly, back and forth, back and forth. They ...
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Campaign in France to loosen ban on direct-to-consumer DNA testing gains traction

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The French ban on direct-to-consumer genetic testing is part of the country’s bioethics laws, which legislators are supposed to revise every ...
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Viewpoint: US government’s clinical trial registry plagued by ‘bogus’ patient-funded stem-cell trials

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When a judge ruled [June 3] that the FDA could stop the work of U.S. Stem Cell, the firm’s trials ...
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Explaining CRISPR gene editing to beginners is no easy task

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[MIT grad student Avery] Normandin was surrounded by an entirely different kind of laypeople. These folks — or at least ...
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Searching for ALS genes in Appalachian Mountain family trees

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With patient visits along the way, [Dr. Edward Kasarskis and Debby Taylor would] be tracing, in reverse, the path of ...
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Mixing psychiatry and neurology: This doctor treats patients other doctors have given up on

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[Neuroscientist Alice Flaherty] has been toying with the boundaries of illness itself. She likes seeing patients other doctors have given ...
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First Luxterna results: Does the $850,000 gene therapy work?

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About eight weeks earlier, [Jack Hogan had] been the first person to get an $850,000 therapy called Luxturna since it had hit the market ...
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Paying for pricey gene therapy without insurance: Amish community faces challenge

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[A]t $850,000 a person, Luxturna was more budget-busting than just about any other drug. [Company] Spark had proposed a few different ways of helping ...
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Highly anticipated Luxturna gene therapy for blindness costs $850,000

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The trouble had started over a decade ago, when the Hogans noticed something wasn’t right with their son Jack...When they ...
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White supremacists flock to genetic tests to confirm their ‘purity’—but most find they have mixed racial ancestries

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With the rise of spit-in-a-cup genetic testing, there’s a trend of white nationalists using these services to prove their racial ...
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Children of older dads at higher risk for psychiatric disorders: Is mutated sperm to blame?

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Ever since it was ...
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Silkworms may be key to improving blood preservation, medical testing

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The boxes arrive from ...

Gene therapy gives new hope to curing ‘bubble boy’ disease

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. David Vetter, the famous ...

First ever artificially engineered vocal cords grown in lab

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For vocal cords, producing ...
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