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from the magazine Patient, Heal Thyself Treatments from our own cells could cure many diseases—if Washington will only allow it to happen. Health Care Personalized medicine” has become a familiar term that refers to the process of fitting drugs to patient molecular profiles that make it likely that the drugs will perform effectively and safely. Now emerging is literally personal medicine: treatments derived entirely from a patient’s own cells, or almost so, and largely controlled by the nimble and powerful biochemical know-how already embedded in those cells. Unlike con...

The following story originally appeared on the W&M Alumni Magazine website. - Ed. When people ask what Melissa J. Moore ’84 does for a living, she often says, “I work for you.” That was literally true when the biochemist and molecular biologist received federal funding for her academic research. And in an important way, it still is. As the chief scientific officer of platform research at Massachusetts-based Moderna Inc., Moore is a key part of the biotech company’s effort to produce 200 million COVID-19 vaccines for the U.S. government to distribute to Americans across the country....

But sometimes they can bring too much of the woods into the house…  Charlotte Keller says, "Thirty or so years ago I bought a live tree for myself and my son. "After setting it up and getting the lights rigged, it was quite lovely. There was a knot on one of the branches, but no tree is perfect, right? "Well, after the lights heated up that tree, the knot started to hatch. And pretty soon my tree came alive with baby praying mantises. "I didn't notice the 'living tree' until after Christmas when it was time to take down the decorations. Then I couldn't get that tree out of my house f...

TV documentary star who had '7 wives' and '19 kids' died after collapsing in bathroom Phillip Sharp - who starred on lots of TV documentaries - was found dead in a bathroom by a relative, an inquest has been told Updated CAPTION: BREAKING documentary star with seven wives dies CREDIT: PA copyright unknown Get the latest news from across Ireland straight to your inbox every single dayInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPri...