Ionis Pharmaceuticals on Thursday won Food and Drug Administration approval for a therapy that treats patients with a rare and deadly genetic disease that impedes
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On the heels of Donald Trump’s presidential election victory, MIT issued a note of caution to its international students: Assess your winter break travel plans.
After turning cystic fibrosis from a death sentence into a manageable condition for many patients, Vertex Pharmaceuticals is now looking to transform the treatment of
A surprise finding by two independent research teams and a venture capital mega-round have birthed a biotech looking to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with a
Researchers like to say that science is self-correcting, that knowledge is slowly but surely refined by new findings that build on or debunk old ones.
After spending decades fixated on a single hypothesis, Alzheimer’s researchers are increasingly searching for new ways to combat the devastating neurologic disease. One such approach
Jasper Therapeutics, a biotech looking to make stem cell transplants less taxing and to treat immune-mediated diseases, reported on Monday that its experimental drug helped
Over the past decade, there has been a clear and unprecedented exodus of young life scientists from academia and into lucrative industry jobs. But new
Over the past 150 years, humanity has unleashed unimaginable energy by splitting atoms and developed machines that allow us to soar through the skies. But