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Genentech is the latest biotech company to commit to Wake County. A ceremonial ground breaking ceremony was held Monday morning.
Massachusetts-based Sarepta Therapeutics, facing scrutiny from regulators, is reducing its global workforce by 36% in an effort to cut annual operating costs by hundreds of millions of dollars.
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After nearly two decades in business, San Francisco-based 23andMe filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday and said it would pursue a sale - a sale that could put genetic data of millions of customers at risk. The company an its assets - including that extremely sensitive DNA data -- will likely soon be up for grabs to the highest bidder.
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NC State researchers are using genetics to create climate-resistant Fraser firs.
(CNN) -- Alzheimer's disease may be inherited more often than previously known, according to a new study that paints a clearer picture of a gene long known to be linked to the common form of dementia.
By Brenda Goodman, CNN
(CNN) -- Humans have many wonderful qualities, but we lack something that's a common feature among most animals with backbones: a tail. Exactly why that is has been something of a mystery.
By Mindy Weisberger, CNN
Michael Edmonds got very familiar with hospitals growing up with sickle cell disease. He was born with it, dealing with what he describes as sharp pain.
Destinee Patterson, WRAL reporter
(CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved two gene-based treatments for sickle cell disease, including the first therapy that uses the gene-editing technique CRISPR, opening a new era of treatments for genetic Whether people will be able to afford and access these treatments, though, is a key question. One-time genetic treatments typically carry price tags of upwards of $1 million each and require the infrastructure of large medical systems..
By Meg Tirrell, CNN
Experts believe someone strangled Lisa Coburn Kesler one week prior and dumped her body along the side of Interstate 40 East near the New Hope Church Road exit.
A new study discovered that a chemical found in Splenda damages DNA.
Climate change is threatening Christmas tree crops, according to North Carolina State University researchers, who are working to make trees more resilient through genetics.
Liz McLaughlin, WRAL climate change reporter
Drug giant Pfizer on Wednesday cut the ribbon on a new manufacturing facility in Durham that will focus on gene therapy treatments for various illnesses.
Drug giant Pfizer is set to cut the ribbon today for a new manufacturing facility inDurham that will over time create "more than 50" new jobs. Here are the details.
Using gene and cell therapies, companies like Locus Biosciences, Novartis Gene Therapies and Audentes, an Astellas company, are working to create cures and treatments for life-threatening conditions.
Abbey Slattery, WRAL Digital Solutions
Do you wince as you walk, or wake up with aches and pains? It could be down to your genes -- your Neanderthal genes, that is.
By Amy Woodyatt, CNN
Researchers are among the first to safely use gene therapy to treat two research patients with ALS.
After a decade of research in more than 30 countries, the researchers may have unlocked the genetic code of cancer. More than a thousand scientists studied the genes of more than 25 thousand tumors.
Losing your hair can be attributed to unavoidable reasons such as genetics. Researchers say bad nutrition may also be a factor.
An Arkansas infant born with a life-threatening genetic disorder has received a multi-million dollar treatment that could save her.
Genetically modified babies could be created ethically within two years, according to an article published in the journal Bioethics.
The BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations account for 5 to 10 percent of breast cancer cases in the United States and 15 percent of cases of ovarian cancer. Last week, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force published its recommendation for screening the population for this genetic disorder.
Pfizer hosts Gov. Roy Cooper at its Sanford manufacturing site to announce an expansion of the company's gene therapy research facility.
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer plans to invest $500 million in its Sanford operations, creating 300 jobs as the company expands its gene therapy efforts.
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