Superhero Drugs: Why Rare DNA Is Worth Billions

Bloomberg Business

Published on Jul 24, 2015

 

July 24 -- What’s good for patients is also good for business. The painkiller market alone is worth $18 billion a year. The drug industry is pressing ahead with research into genetic irregularities. The FDA is expected to approve a cholesterol-lowering treatment from Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals based on the rare gene mutation of an aerobics instructor with astoundingly low cholesterol levels. Bloomberg's Caroline Chen has more on "Bloomberg Markets."

Climate Change: Everything You Need to Know About Global Warming

Bloomberg Business

Published on Jul 23, 2015

 

Global warming turns 120 next year... sort of. Next year will be the 120th anniversary of the first time we figured out that human activity could be causing climate change. Since then, the science has gotten firmer and the politics have gotten murkier, but the outlook for the future remains uncertain. This is the history of manmade global warming in three minutes. (Corrects number of hottest years in history since 1998.) (Video by: Alan Jeffries, Christian Capestany, Eric Roston)

NASA Discovers 'Earth's Cousin' 1,400 Light Years Away

Bloomberg Business

Published on Jul 24, 2015

 

July 23 -- Today’s "BWest Byte" is 1,400, for the number of light years between Earth and a newly-discovered planet that could be our close cousin. Bloomberg's Emily Chang reports on "Bloomberg West."