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One in five Americans in need of a liver transplant dies on the wait list. San Diego-based Organovo hopes to change that by creating transplantable liver tissue in the lab. -
Darrell Issa's congressional race is closer than he would perhaps like. A local company refers a patient for a costly, unproven stem cell treatment. And Barrio Logan braces for a very large new neighbor. -
Jin-Quan Yu, a chemist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, and Victoria Orphan, a Caltech geobiologist who grew up in San Diego, are among those receiving MacArthur fellowships this year. -
KPBS Midday EditionA stroke patient who pursued stem cell treatments abroad says he trusted San Diego-based Stemedica based on its leaders’ credentials. But those credentials don’t always hold up to scrutiny. -
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KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego philanthropist Conrad Prebys, whose donations have supported major projects in San Diego, has died of cancer. -
The company's only drug in the market, the weight-loss medication Belviq, has struggled to reach patients. -
Here's what UC San Diego's Siddharth Singh said: "The magnitude of weight loss across all these medicines was not very impressive." -
A technique known as "gene drive" could fight diseases like malaria and Zika by rewriting the rules of genetic inheritance. But it's not ready for use in the wild, according to a new report. -
KPBS Midday EditionA new report shows that out of 44 publicly traded biotech companies in San Diego, only 1 has a female CEO.
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