Healthcare: Apple's Cure for Soaring Costs? Tech-Savvy Healthcare Clinics
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The Cupertino company plans to open healthcare clinics that will rely heavily on its technology. Also, Gilead Sciences partners with Sangamo Therapeutics on gene-editing.
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| 0:20.8 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:25.0 | It's Wednesday, February 28th. I'm your host Christine Hargis and I'm joined via Skype by |
| 0:29.9 | full.com health care specialist Todd Campbell. Hey Todd, how are you? |
| 0:34.0 | Hi Christine, I'm well. Glad to be on the show today. It's going to be a fun one. |
| 0:38.5 | Yes, let's get right into it. Some news out of one of our most beloved biotech stocks, Gilead Sciences, last |
| 0:46.2 | Thursday, February 22nd, a collaboration between Gilead and Sengamo Therapeutics was announced. |
| 0:53.1 | This licensing deal will use Sangamo's |
| 0:55.6 | zinc finger nucleus or ZphN technology |
| 0:59.4 | to edit DNA to develop cell therapies for cancer. |
| 1:04.2 | You know what's really cool, Christine, and we're going to get into a little bit more than |
| 1:07.8 | ditty gritty as we go forward, but you think about where we may be heading in treatment from here and the whole concept of being able to go in and |
| 1:18.0 | actually replace or edit out you know these parts of our genetic code that are faulty is truly quite amazing I was thinking hey |
| 1:26.2 | maybe they can actually make my hair not be gray or but I think that they're going to focus more on |
| 1:31.9 | on some much more important things early on. |
| 1:36.1 | You know there are a few different ways that companies are researching gene editing. |
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