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Featuring Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Advisor to President Biden and Former Director of the National Institutes of Health, and Joni Rutter, Ph.D., NCATS Director, Plus a Panel...

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Newer methods may boost gene therapys use for more diseases MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer June 2, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail This September 2019 photo provided by UC San Diego shows Stephanie Cherqui and patient Jordan Janz in her research lab in La Jolla, Calif. Jordan Janz knew his gamble on an experimental gene therapy for his rare disease might be paying off when he returned to work and a friend sniffed him. “He said, ‘you have a normal smell, you smell good,’” Janz re...

Jordan Janz knew his gamble on an experimental gene therapy for his rare disease might be paying off when he returned to work and a friend sniffed him. “He said, ‘you have a normal smell, you smell good,’” Janz recalled. “And I’m like, ‘that’s probably the nicest thing you’ve ever said.’” The 22-year-old Canadian man’s…

Caption: The Future Founders Initiative aims to increase the fraction of MIT female faculty who found companies from less than 10 percent to 25 percent by 2024. Caption: Future Founders collaborators (clockwise from top left) Susan Hockfield, MIT president emerita; Harvey Lodish, professor of biology and biomedical engineering; and Sangeeta Bhatia, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical...