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Reviews | We can cure disease by modifying a person's DNA. Why aren't we?

Reviews | We can cure disease by modifying a person’s DNA. Why aren’t we?

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Across the sector of for-profit companies that manufacture gene therapy drugs, a sobering process is taking place. Even when they create a treatment that works, companies price it exorbitantly (about $2-3 million per patient), arguing that a one-time treatment saves the healthcare system years of supportive care. expensive. For diseases with less than 100 patients, …

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Reviews | Want to save the planet? Focus on feral cats.

Reviews | Want to save the planet? Focus on feral cats.

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Comment this story Comment John Goodrich is the chief scientist of Panthera, the global wildcat conservation organization. Global biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, with more than one million species threatened with extinction. This week, the governments of most nations around the world will meet at COP15 – the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal …

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Reviews | If you want to give something back to nature, give your body

Reviews | If you want to give something back to nature, give your body

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By Caitlin Doughty Graphics by Taylor Maggiacomo Caitlin Doughty is an undertaker and author of three books on death and the funeral industry. She founded The Order of the Good Death, a non-profit organization that promotes end-of-life alternatives. Eight years ago, panting heavily in the humid summer air, I hauled a pair of orange work …

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Reviews | My community does not exist just to absolve you of your climate sins

Reviews | My community does not exist just to absolve you of your climate sins

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In my community in southern Costa Rica, the Ceiba tree is sacred. It towers over all other trees in our forests, with a canopy of up to 230 feet. My people, the Bribri, have always looked upon our Ceibas with admiration and respect. Rich nations are looking at them now and seeing them as an …

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Reviews | Long stretches of the Mississippi River dried up. And after?

Reviews | Long stretches of the Mississippi River dried up. And after?

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Last month, record high water levels in the Mississippi River stranded nearly 3,000 barges – the equivalent of 210,000 container trucks – on the United States’ most important inland waterway. Despite frantic dredging, farmers were only able to move half the maize they shipped this time last year. Deliveries of fuel, coal, industrial chemicals and …

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Reviews | The world has taken a bold, toothless step forward on climate justice

Reviews | The world has taken a bold, toothless step forward on climate justice

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The UN climate conference that wrapped up last weekend in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, did not initially look set to deliver a major breakthrough. Unlike last year’s meeting in Glasgow, this year’s was not designed to produce new emissions pledges, and so the countries that pollute the most were not put under particular pressure to offer …

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