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The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, today announced the teams for the Treating Hereditary Rare Diseases with In Vivo Precision Genetic Medicines (THRIVE) program — a critical investment toward bringing new treatments to patients faster and cure rare genetic pediatric diseases. THRIVE will…

The US government’s health research moonshot agency has launched a five-year, $160 million bet that the era of bespoke gene-editing cures — currently limited to children whose families can access a vast scientific team willing to absorb the cost — can be converted into an industrial platform available to the 30 million Americans living with…