lunes, 20 de junio de 2016

Promising gene therapies pose million-dollar conundrum : Nature News & Comment

Promising gene therapies pose million-dollar conundrum : Nature News & Comment

Promising gene therapies pose million-dollar conundrum

Economists, investors and medical insurers can’t figure out how to pay for cutting-edge drugs.


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Drugs that act by modifying a patient’s genes are close to approval in the United States, and one is already available in Europe. The developments mark a triumph for the field of gene therapy, onceconsidered controversial.



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How iPS cells changed the world

Induced pluripotent stem cells were supposed to herald a medical revolution. But ten years after their discovery, they are transforming biological research instead.

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