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Some diseases set children on a damaging path before birth, which has researchers looking at editing the genes of fetuses in utero. But that's not so far from editing an embryo's genes, an act that sent the scientific world into a tizzy when a Chinese researcher did it in 2018. Ryan Cross reports on that shifting red line.

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by Ryan Cross

BOSTON— Over the past year, I’ve be­gun hear­ing rum­blings from sci­en­tists who se­cret­ly think it’s time to stop be­ing stodgy about edit­ing the genes...

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News Briefing: Quick hits from the biopharma web
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by ENDPOINTS

💉 Pfiz­er’s ex­per­i­men­tal 25-va­lent pneu­mo­coc­cal shot beats Pre­vnar 20: The vac­cine can­di­date, co­de­named PF-07872412, pro­duced high­er geo­met­ric mean titers for serotype 3 than Pfiz­er’s...

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by Kyle LaHucik

Para­bilis Med­i­cines, the decade-old and well-fund­ed "un­drug­gable" biotech out of Greg Ver­dine's Har­vard lab, seeks to be­come the 12th drug de­vel­op­er to con­duct an...

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by Reynald Castaneda, Anna Brown

Eu­ro­pean health­care in­vestor GHO Cap­i­tal and as­set man­age­ment firm CBC Group are set to join forces, with the new en­ti­ty to man­age over $21 bil­lion...

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