April 17, 2018

Weekly Biomedicine Newsletter

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Pet cloning is bringing human cloning a little bit closer

People are copying pets to preserve a physical, and spiritual, connection to dead children.

 
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When curing a disease with gene therapy is bad business

A drug giant turns over its pipeline of miracle drugs to a startup.

 
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This AI thinks like a dog

It won’t lick your face, but a new artificial-intelligence system mimics canine behavior to make dog-like decisions. Other animals could be next.

 
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CRISPR trials are about to begin in people—but we still don’t know how well it works in monkeys

Monkey studies look encouraging but show there’s still a lot to learn about the gene-editing technology.

 
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