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STAT+: Equity, technology, and costs top of mind for life science’s leaders

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Physicians, researchers, CEOs, reporters, and more gathered in downtown Boston Wednesday night to celebrate STAT’s 2024 STATUS List , which features 50 leaders in the life sciences. and the rest of the world.

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STAT+: Why a British hospital, and not a drugmaker, is trying to get a rare disease therapy approved

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LONDON — Claire Booth, a gene therapy researcher in London, had hoped that a biotech company would take her team’s work on an experimental medication for an ultra-rare children’s disease and get it to market. The snag isn’t one of science. It didn’t happen.

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One-quarter of Americans have little to no confidence in scientists to act in public’s best interests, per report

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America’s trust in scientists and positive views of science has continued to decline, according to a new report. The Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan think tank, asked a random sample of 8,842 American adults this fall about their views on science and scientists. Read the rest…

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In pigs, researchers show ultrasound could be used for 3D printing inside the body

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Researchers at Duke University and Harvard Medical School have successfully demonstrated a proof of concept in new research published Thursday in Science using a 3D printer that uses ultrasound to print biomaterials inside an organ. Imagine getting surgery without ever being cut open. Read the rest…

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STAT+: In major test for eGenesis, gene-edited pig kidneys kept monkeys alive for more than two years

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Scientists at a Massachusetts-based biotechnology company and their academic research partners reported Wednesday that an engineered breed of miniature pig containing up to 69 genetic changes produced kidneys that functioned well in monkeys for an average of 176 days and in one animal for more than two years.

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AlphaFold developers and eye scan inventors among Lasker Award winners for 2023

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The prestigious Lasker Awards for biomedical research are sometimes referred to as “America’s Nobel,” and with good reason — about a fourth of Lasker laureates have gone on to receive the Swedish award, too. Read the rest…

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STAT+: NYU launched private ChatGPT for its health data, and set its staff loose to experiment

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As part of a “prompt-a-thon” in August at the medical center’s science building, the group had been charged with analyzing a patient record around the theme of equity using NYU’s HIPAA-compliant implementation of the buzzy OpenAI technology that can interpret language and generate text based on queries.

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