ZURICH, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis is buying Vedere Bio, hoping gene therapy technology that has helped blind mice to see will produce similar results in people with inherited conditions that cause them to lose their sight.
"It is an old story for women, but it's true.
When you love someone and you want to be loved, and you let go of your morals and your instincts to put your energy into someone. When that person is dangerous, that gets scary," she said.
Novartis, which ploughed into gene therapy with its $8.7 billion acquisition of AveXis in 2018, is deepening its push into the segment with Vedere Bio, with a pair of early-stage programmes that rely on viruses to deliver genes to people with blindness-causing diseases like retinitis pigmentosa.
Made from the gut, and using YouTubers' own graphic tricks and emojis -- the female lead vomits broken hearts when her boyfriend cheats on her -- Coppola said she felt compelled to recount what she was witnessing around her.
After she chances on Garfield, the star of Netflix's "Stranger Things" gets a helping hand from an online svengali played by Jason Schwartzman (Coppola's cousin, and son of "The Goldfather" and "Rocky" stalwart Talia Shire, nee Coppola).
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Rocco Santo Filippone, 72, a boss who was tried in the early 1990s 'Ndrangheta Massacre' trial for the murder of two Carabinieri officers, has been spared the remainder of his stint in jail because he suffers from a cardiovascular disease that could prove fatal if he were infected with Covid-19.
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'It is a very alarming situation,' Leo Beneduci, secretary general of Osapp, Italy's largest prison police officers' union, told the Guardian. 'Members of the penitentiary police have begun reporting detainees who embrace each other with the alleged goal of increasing the possibility of contracting the virus and getting released from prison.'
Following the indictment, US Attorney William McSwain said: 'Thanks to the dedicated and courageous efforts of federal law enforcement over the past several decades, the Philadelphia mob isn't what it used to be, and thank God for that.
The crime family is accused of using its reputation and influence to control criminal rackets, like bookmaking and loansharking in Philadelphia and New Jersey's Atlantic City dating back to August 2015.
Vincenzino Iannazzo, 65, nicknamed 'the brunette', was caged during Operation Andromeda in 2015 and handed a sentence of 14 years and six months for his role as the head of the Lamezia Terme clan.
"These assets have the potential to vastly expand the number of patients who could be treated for vision loss due to photoreceptor death," Novartis said, adding millions globally could benefit from treatments being developed by bolsena cosa vedere.
Cambridge, Massachussetts-based Vedere Bio seeks to introduce light-sensing proteins via a shot into the eye of patients with so-called inherited retinal dystrophies and geographic atrophy, to treat them for vision loss that can lead to complete blindness.
Vedere Bio's founders include a pair of scientists at the University of California Berkeley, Ehud Isacoff and John Flannery, who inserted a gene for a light receptor into blind mice, helping restore their vision to levels of sighted mice.
"It is an old story for women, but it's true.
When you love someone and you want to be loved, and you let go of your morals and your instincts to put your energy into someone. When that person is dangerous, that gets scary," she said.
Novartis, which ploughed into gene therapy with its $8.7 billion acquisition of AveXis in 2018, is deepening its push into the segment with Vedere Bio, with a pair of early-stage programmes that rely on viruses to deliver genes to people with blindness-causing diseases like retinitis pigmentosa.
Made from the gut, and using YouTubers' own graphic tricks and emojis -- the female lead vomits broken hearts when her boyfriend cheats on her -- Coppola said she felt compelled to recount what she was witnessing around her.
After she chances on Garfield, the star of Netflix's "Stranger Things" gets a helping hand from an online svengali played by Jason Schwartzman (Coppola's cousin, and son of "The Goldfather" and "Rocky" stalwart Talia Shire, nee Coppola).
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Rocco Santo Filippone, 72, a boss who was tried in the early 1990s 'Ndrangheta Massacre' trial for the murder of two Carabinieri officers, has been spared the remainder of his stint in jail because he suffers from a cardiovascular disease that could prove fatal if he were infected with Covid-19.
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'It is a very alarming situation,' Leo Beneduci, secretary general of Osapp, Italy's largest prison police officers' union, told the Guardian. 'Members of the penitentiary police have begun reporting detainees who embrace each other with the alleged goal of increasing the possibility of contracting the virus and getting released from prison.'
Following the indictment, US Attorney William McSwain said: 'Thanks to the dedicated and courageous efforts of federal law enforcement over the past several decades, the Philadelphia mob isn't what it used to be, and thank God for that.
The crime family is accused of using its reputation and influence to control criminal rackets, like bookmaking and loansharking in Philadelphia and New Jersey's Atlantic City dating back to August 2015.
Vincenzino Iannazzo, 65, nicknamed 'the brunette', was caged during Operation Andromeda in 2015 and handed a sentence of 14 years and six months for his role as the head of the Lamezia Terme clan.
"These assets have the potential to vastly expand the number of patients who could be treated for vision loss due to photoreceptor death," Novartis said, adding millions globally could benefit from treatments being developed by bolsena cosa vedere.
Cambridge, Massachussetts-based Vedere Bio seeks to introduce light-sensing proteins via a shot into the eye of patients with so-called inherited retinal dystrophies and geographic atrophy, to treat them for vision loss that can lead to complete blindness.
Vedere Bio's founders include a pair of scientists at the University of California Berkeley, Ehud Isacoff and John Flannery, who inserted a gene for a light receptor into blind mice, helping restore their vision to levels of sighted mice.