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Medical science
World-first trial of gene therapy to cure form of deafness begins
...Auditory neuropathy can be due to a variation in a single gene — known as the OTOF gene — which produces a protein called otoferlin....
October 11, 2023
Biotech
UK start-up Genomics raises £35mn for advanced genetic testing
...For example, he said about 15 to 20 per cent of women in the UK were at high risk for breast cancer because of a combination of genes, and so should be offered mammograms in their 40s, but could not be identified...
January 8, 2024
FT Live
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Thursday, 16 MayNew York, NY, USA
Biotech
Japan’s development bank makes first UK life sciences investment
...Japan’s sovereign development bank is investing in UK life sciences for the first time with funding for 4Bio Capital, a UK venture fund that backs advanced treatments such as cell and gene therapies....
January 4, 2024
News updates from February 7: Netanyahu rejects Hamas ceasefire demand, Disney unveils $3bn buyback
European parliament gives go-ahead for farmers to use gene editing on crops
...EU lawmakers have voted to approve a controversial law that will make it easier for farmers to use gene editing to improve the resilience of crops....
February 7, 2024
Biotech
Gene-editing pioneer calls for big investment in Crispr technology
...gene or tweaking it to change its function....
March 21, 2024
News updates from December 8: US adds 199,000 jobs in November, UK competition watchdog examining Microsoft-OpenAI ties
US drug regulator approves Crispr gene editing therapy
...The UK approved Casgevy in November, making it the first country to greenlight a therapy based on Crispr gene editing....
December 8, 2023
FT Live
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Tuesday, 5 NovemberIn-Person & Online Conference
Medical science
Scientists use Crispr gene editing to treat hereditary disorder
...“We used a single infusion over two to four hours — and the gene editing takes place inside the liver,” he said....
January 31, 2024
News updates from November 16: Oil prices hit 4-month low, Wirecard hacker sentenced to 80 months in prison
UK approves Crispr gene editing therapy in global first
...Crispr is a flexible and efficient gene editing tool based on the bacterial immune system....
November 16, 2023
Medical science
Brain organoids target rare neurological disorder
...The scientists then targeted the action of a gene known as CACNA1C, which causes a mutation fundamental to Timothy syndrome....
April 24, 2024
Drug prices
Rare genetic disease therapy becomes world’s most expensive drug at $4.25mn
...Lenmeldy works by inserting a genetically modified version of the gene that causes MLD in a patient’s blood stem cells and delivering it via an infusion....
March 20, 2024
Mergers & Acquisitions
EU wrong to block Illumina’s $8bn takeover of Grail, says court adviser
...A senior EU court adviser has said the European Commission was wrong to block gene sequencing group Illumina’s $8bn acquisition of Grail and that the decision should be scrapped....
March 21, 2024
News in-depthNews in-depth3 min
Crispr gene editing technology could transform medicine | FT Tech
...But the UK has just become the first country to approve a therapy based on Crispr gene editing, authorising a treatment for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia....
December 5, 2023
Anjana Ahuja
The EU risks losing out on farming’s genomic reboot
...“It is a great testament to their ingenuity, combined with the acceptance that something needs to be done quickly, that these early developers of gene-editing are not in the resource-rich [global] north,...
January 31, 2024
Medical science
UK approves Crispr gene editing therapy in global first
...The UK has become the first country to approve a therapy based on Crispr gene editing, with the regulator authorising a treatment for sickle cell disease and beta thalassaemia....
November 16, 2023
ReviewScience books
How Life Works — why there’s more to it all than DNA
...One clue was that when the Human Genome Project sequenced a human’s DNA in 2003, scientists were shocked to find only some 20,000 genes for proteins, the same as a much less complex worm....
February 2, 2024
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Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
Europe Express
Why the EU’s climate chief says the green agenda must endure Premium content
...Japanese professor Hiroshi Ezura, who created the world’s first commercially sold gene-edited fruit, a tomato that can reduce blood pressure, visited Brussels last week to convince lawmakers to press ahead...
January 29, 2024
Scientific research
AI explores ‘dark genome’ to shed light on cancer growth
...“They end up being clustered around genes that are altered in cancer in a variety of different ways, providing the first glimpse that these sequences may be key to tumour development,” he said....
March 13, 2024
Highlights from the New Hampshire primary: Trump wins, Haley vows to press on
Comment: New Hampshire likes to surprise
...New Hampshire likes to surprise, as we’ve seen so many times in the past — there has been a strange range of winners there from Bernie Sanders to Pat Buchanan (even Gene McCarthy nearly bested LBJ there)...
January 23, 2024
Scientific research
Scientists reprogramme microbes in quest to create new materials
...of a wide range of new polymers....
January 11, 2024
Genomics
Scientists alter chickens’ DNA to reduce spread of bird flu
...In a peer-reviewed study published in Nature on Tuesday, researchers from Edinburgh university, Imperial College London and the Pirbright Institute used gene editing techniques to alter the section of chicken...
October 10, 2023
Music
Rock band Kiss sells rights for $300mn to company behind Abba hologram show
...Gene Simmons, bassist and co-founder of Kiss, said there were various plans in development, including the virtual concert, a biopic and a Kiss-themed “experience”....
April 4, 2024
Apple Inc
Apple reaches $490mn settlement over Tim Cook’s China demand comments
...Gene Munster at Deepwater Asset Management said he was surprised by Apple’s decision to settle the case, given companies commonly offer commentary on market trends....
March 15, 2024
Letter
Letter: Best advocate for a deaf child is an informed parent
...We read with great interest Sarah Neville’s article “World-first gene therapy trial launched to cure type of deafness” (Report, October 12)....
November 8, 2023
Helen Thomas
The cost of living crisis is no reason to buy now, regulate later
...A review by Chris Woolard, former head of the Financial Conduct Authority, had identified “significant potential consumer harm” from BNPL products, which offer customers interest-free, short-term loans to...
July 24, 2023
ReviewFiction
Your Absence Is Darkness — a rich mosaic of Icelandic storytelling
...We hear at the outset of trauma “pressed into the genes”. The deep past “nourished us with its constant presence” but also “held us captive”....
April 24, 2024

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