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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/health/vertex-pain-medicine-non-opioid.html Experimental Drug Cuts Off Pain at the Source, Company Says Vertex Pharmaceuticals said its medicine could address moderate to severe acute pain, and might be able to avoid the risk of addiction. Vertex...

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/melanoma-cancer-vaccine-minimal-side-effects-nearing-phase/story?id=106521186 Cancer vaccine with minimal side effects nearing Phase 3 clinical trials Each shot would be completely personalized to the patient. By Dr. Jade Cobern January 20, 2024, 5:11 AM 2:01...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/04/1084209/vertex-exacel-approval-gene-editing-sickle-cell-disease-patient/ I received the new gene-editing drug for sickle cell disease. It changed my life. As a patient enrolled in a clinical trial for Vertex’s new exa-cel treatment, I was among the...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03797-7 NEWS 07 December 2023 Landmark approval of the first CRISPR therapy paves the way for treatments based on more efficient and more precise genome editors. By Heidi Ledford More versatile genome editors are supplanting the CRISPR-Cas9...

This is a :mindblown: story but it could end up changing a lot of lives. Real life superpowers. tl/dr: She smelled that her husband had Parkinson's years before he showed any symptoms at all and 14 years before he finally went to the doctor to get checked out, and it turns out she can...