Letters to the editor: On Turkey, Brexit, GM crops, Airbnb, trade, autism, cricket
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Turkish politics
“Turkey locks up dissidents” (November 12th) seriously understates the extent of the problem Turkey faces from the Gulenist terror organisation, FETO. This has been a recurring theme in European media, which per...
Source: Biotechnology - November 24, 2016 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
The Economist explains: Why gene-therapy drugs are so expensive
ON AUGUST 3rd the British pharmaceutical company GSK said that it would charge €594,000 ($665,000) for a gene-therapy cure for ADA-SCID—a severe immune disorder that is usually fatal in the first few years of life. A child born with ADA-SCID is unable to fight off everyday infections; Strimvelis has cured this in each of the 18 children it has been tested on over 15 years. Gene therapies work by delivering correct versions of DNA, usually using a virus as a vector. Once DNA is inside the cell, it produces the protein that was missing and the fault is fixed. Scientists have been trying to develop gene therapies for deca...
Source: Biotechnology - August 4, 2016 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Rare diseases: Fixing fate
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WHEN families leave the genetic institute at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, they are still anxious. Later, many will come to see the day their children received gene therapy as a blessed new start. Youngsters who had been...
Source: Biotechnology - July 28, 2016 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Rare diseases: Fixing fate
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Source: Biotechnology - July 28, 2016 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Genetically modified crops: Gene-policy transfer
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AFTER years of fierce debate in China about whether to allow widespread growing of genetically modified (GM) food crops, a strong signal emerged in 2013 that the leadership wanted to push ahead. It was given in a speech on agricultural policy by President Xi Jinping. In it he recounted his own e...
Source: Biotechnology - April 21, 2016 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Genetically modified crops: Gene-policy transfer
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China may relax its almost total ban on growing GM food
AFTER years of fierce debate in China about whether to allow widespread growing of genetically modifi...
Source: Biotechnology - April 21, 2016 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Biotechnology: Cutting remarks
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AS DIFFICULT sales pitches go, this one is hard to beat. This biotech company has burned through $75m in the past few years and has not yet started clinical work on a drug candidate. It says it will be many years, “if ever”, before it has something ready to commercialise. If this were...
Source: Biotechnology - January 7, 2016 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Biotechnology: Cutting remarks
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A gene-editing company files for an IPO
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AS DIFFICULT sales pitches go, this one is hard to beat. This biotech company has burned through $75m in the p...
Source: Biotechnology - January 7, 2016 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Genome editing: The age of the red pen
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IN THE summer of 2005 Karen Aiach and her husband received heartbreaking news about their four-month-old daughter, Ornella: she had a rare disorder known as Sanfilippo syndrome. The prognosis was that, from about the age of three, the disorder would gradually rob her of most of her cognitiv...
Source: Biotechnology - August 20, 2015 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Genome editing: The age of the red pen
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It is now easy to edit the genomes of plants, animals and humans
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IN THE summer of 2005 Karen Aiach and her husband received heartbreaking news about the...
Source: Biotechnology - August 20, 2015 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Biotechnology and fish farming: Gas guzzlers
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SOMETHING called Methylococcus capsulatus might not sound an appetising ingredient for a meal. Methylococcus is a methanotroph, a bacterium that metabolises methane. Fortunately, salmon are not fussy eaters. They will happily consume pelletised protein made from these bugs. And that could be handy for fish farmers—at least it will be if Alan Shaw, ...
Source: Biotechnology - April 23, 2015 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Biotechnology and fish farming: Gas guzzlers
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Feeding farmed salmon with protein made from methane
SOMETHING called Methylococcus capsulatus might not sound an appetising ingredient for a meal. Methylococcus is a methanotroph, a bacterium that metabolises methane. Fortunately, salmon are...
Source: Biotechnology - April 23, 2015 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Europe and GMOs: Gently modified
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EUROPE has long been defiantly GM-free. The Americas and most of Asia grows the stuff without fuss. But crops whose genes have been modified in some way may not (with a few exceptions) be grown in the European Union. Until now. On January 13th the European Parliament lifted the EU-wide ban, instead allowing national governments to impose their own restrictions. The plan has...
Source: Biotechnology - January 15, 2015 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Europe and GMOs: Gently modified
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The EU lifts its ban on GM crops
EUROPE has long been defiantly GM-free. The Americas and most of Asia grows the stuff without fuss. But crops whose genes have been modified in some way may not (with a few exceptions) be grown in the European Union. Until now. On Ja...
Source: Biotechnology - January 15, 2015 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
