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How will the new Labour government tackle climate change? …Tech & Science Daily podcast

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Listen here on the podcast platform of your choice. With Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party now on its honeymoon thanks to a supermajority in the House of Commons, what are the environmental challenges ahead? We asked Simon Lewis, professor of global change studies at University College London, about the new government’s priorities for tackling the … Read more

Gene therapy can cure rare diseases. But drug makers have little incentive, leaving families desperate

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Robin Alderman faces a painful reality: gene therapy could cure her son Camden’s rare hereditary immune deficiency. But it’s not for him. In 2022, London-based Orchard Therapeutics stopped investing in an experimental treatment for the condition, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. And there are no gene therapy studies he can participate in. “We feel like we’ve been forgotten,” … Read more

Gene therapy can cure rare diseases. But drug makers have little incentive, leaving families desperate

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Robin Alderman faces a painful reality: gene therapy could cure her son Camden’s rare hereditary immune deficiency. But it’s not for him. In 2022, London-based Orchard Therapeutics stopped investing in an experimental treatment for the condition, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. And there are no gene therapy studies he can participate in. “We feel like we’ve been forgotten,” … Read more