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This Startup Wants To Fight Bladder Cancer With A Genetically Engineered Virus

CG Oncology, led by Forbes 30 Under 30 alum Arhtur Kuan, has developed a genetically engineered virus to treat bladder cancer.

This Scientist Is Building Custom Gene-Editing Tools—And Stands To Make Billions

Benjamin Oakes’ Scribe Therapeutics is developing specialized Crispr proteins for multiple diseases–and it’s got deals with Big Pharma potentially worth over $4 billion

InnovationRx: Lilly’s Alzheimer’s Drug Candidate Slows Cognitive Decline, Study Suggests

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InnovationRx: HCA Healthcare Data Breach Affects 11 Million Patients

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FDA Gives The Okay For Abbott’s New Minimally Invasive Pacemaker

Medtech giant Abbott announced that its new leadless pacemaker system, Aveir DR, has been approved by the FDA.

InnovationRx: Intelligence Agencies Say No ‘Direct Evidence’ For Covid Lab Leak

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InnovationRx: The AMA Clarifies That BMI Is Just One Tool Among Many

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InnovationRx: Scientists May Have Figured Out What’s Behind Long Covid

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InnovationRx: Beethoven’s Genome; Plus, Billionaires Back New Kind Of Health Research

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Why Billionaires Ken Griffin And Eric Schmidt Are Spending $50 Million On A New Kind Of Scientific Research

‘Focused Research Organizations’ aim to provide useful tools and information to the scientific community in areas that currently aren’t being served by academia or business.