https://www.wired.com/story/crispr-gene-therapy-approved-sickle-cell-casgevy/
EMILY MULLIN
SCIENCE
NOV 16, 2023 10:32 AM
The First Crispr Medicine Just Got Approved
The gene-editing therapy, called Casgevy, uses Crispr to prevent debilitating pain in patients with sickle cell disease. It also...
https://www.wired.com/story/crispr-gene-therapy-approved-sickle-cell-casgevy/
EMILY MULLIN
SCIENCE
NOV 16, 2023 10:32 AM
The First Crispr Medicine Just Got Approved
The gene-editing therapy, called Casgevy, uses Crispr to prevent debilitating pain in patients with sickle cell disease. It also...
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/crispr-gene-editing-shown-to-permanently-lower-high-cholesterol/
Crispr gene editing shown to permanently lower high cholesterolFolks with hereditary high cholesterol would be able avoid lifelong medication.EMILY MULLIN, WIRED.COM - Wednesday at undefined...
tbh this seems like a pretty obvious one. Hard to imagine as big a technological breakthrough that had so large an immediate impact.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66983060
https://innovationorigins.com/en/cancer-pill-aoh1996-shows-promise-in-annihilating-all-solid-tumours/
Cancer pill AOH1996 shows promise in annihilating all solid tumours
HEALTH - If approved, AOH1996 could be used in combination with existing therapies to both enhance cancer-killing effects...
First UK baby with DNA from three people born after new IVF procedure
:dahell:
Link -> First UK baby with DNA from three people born after new IVF procedure
The first UK baby created with DNA from three people has been born after doctors performed a groundbreaking IVF procedure that aims...
Interesting survey here on Pew:
Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Other Groups Declines
Before the pandemic, the Black community had the lowest trust of medical scientists and Whites trust was much higher. Now both Whites and Hispanics trust of the medical establishment has crashed and basically...
Billionaire Mark Cuban Opens Online Pharmacy To Provide Affordable Generic Drugs
Lisa Kim
Forbes Staff
Business
Updated Jan 20, 2022, 02:16pm EST
TOPLINE
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban launched an online pharmacy Thursday that offers more than 100 generic drugs at an affordable price with a...
Brain. At least half of it. :ohhh:
(time stamped)
This some crazy sht if I ever saw it. I’m not sure if we can even use “brainless” as an insult anymore.:francis:
And whats really weird is that this white lady is in her damn 30s, with a husband and kids, walking around with half her...
So Johns Hopkins did a colonoscopy experiment that suspiciously targeted black people with unqualified health workers instead of board certified gastroenterologists. In a hospital system that has 20%-30% black admittance rates, 75% of expiremnt subjects were black.:francis:
This story has the...
Homeopathy officially doesn't work, according to Russia's top science body
"Damning report urges people to treat homeopathy 'on a par with magic'.
The Russian Academy of Sciences has become the latest body to declare homeopathy has “no scientific basis” and endangers people who believe it to...
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