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¦ ŞTIINŢĂ ŞI TEHNOLOGIE:

1. Five Major Drug Breakthroughs That Happened in 2018 [en]
[Childhood Epilepsy Meets its Match: Cannabis. Aimovig, the First-in-Class Migraine Prevention Drug. Lucemyra, the Non-Opioid Withdrawal Drug. Biktarvy, the Most Potent HIV Medication to Date. A “Big Brother” Digital Pill that Tracks Your Poop]

2. Why cells have the hidden power to save thousands of lives [en]
[Cell therapies have emerged as treatments for end-stage blood cancers. Two great waves defined the success of the pharmaceutical industry in the 20th century: the development of small-molecule drugs, such as Lipitor, which is used to lower cholesterol; and that of biologics, such as the anti-inflammatory drug Humira. In 2019 we will see a third wave come into its own – cell therapies. We can now manipulate large numbers of cells with advanced microfluidics, read genomic information via sequencing, introduce new genes with viral vectors, edit the genome with CRISPR and make sense of all this information with computational biology and bioinformatics. ]

3. Half of people who think they have a food allergy do not [en]
[US study finds some people needlessly avoid foods while others do not have life-saving medication.]