Macron backs Armenia’s pro-Europe PM as re-election campaign draws to close | Armenia

Emmanuel Macron has made an unabashed pre-election pitch on behalf of Armenia’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, saying the country’s destiny lay with Europe. The French president also accused Russia of abandoning Armenia after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war that led to Azerbaijan displacing tens of thousands of Armenians. Pashinyan, who – unlike the leaders of neighbouring…

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How scientists made the discoveries behind a game-changing gene therapy for sickle cell disease and won a $3-million Breakthrough Prize

Sickle cell disease is the scourge a person’s red blood cells. The inherited blood disorder, which disproportionately affects people in sub-Saharan Africa and India, can cause unbearable pain “crises” and extreme exhaustion. And until recently, there was no curative treatment. Now approved gene therapies for sickle cell disease (including sickle cell anemia, the most extreme…

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