Biomedicine

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Genomic medicine

Despite the Hype Over Gene Therapy, Few Drugs Are Close to Approval

There are hundreds of early clinical trials, but only a handful of late-stage ones have reached completion.
Novel therapeutics

How Los Alamos Is Learning to Track Disease Outbreaks Around the World

Nobody agrees on how best to collect data about diseases that threaten human health. That looks set to change.
Novel therapeutics

Freeze-Dried Molecules Can Be Used to Whip Up Medicines Anywhere

The approach could be a tenth the price of earlier methods.
Novel therapeutics

It Costs $30 to Make a DIY EpiPen, and Here’s the Proof

The medical maker collective Four Thieves Vinegar made an “EpiPencil” for a tiny fraction of what the EpiPen manufacturer Mylan charges.
Genomic medicine

17 and Going Blind: The High Stakes of Getting into a Gene Therapy Trial

For patients with some inherited diseases, a chance to test an experimental treatment can offer the only hope.
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    The ability to precisely alter human genes could revolutionize medicine and medical research.

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    Why stick to what nature gives us when we can synthesize our own genetic pathways?

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    Advances in electronics and biomedicine are greatly increasing human capabilities.

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