Right now, there are only an estimated 10 people in Ireland who have been diagnosed with a form of mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I) called Hurler syndrome. This is the…
Currently, the standards-of-care for patients with Hurler syndrome, or one of the forms of mucopolysacchardiosis type I (MPS I), include enzyme replacement therapy and hematopoietic stem cell transplants. However, Medical…
According to an article in BioPortfolio, Magenta Therapeutics, a biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Mass., recently announced updates to its Phase II trial of MGTA-456 for the treatment of…
India first drafted a national rare disease policy back in 2017. Unfortunately, it was never enacted due to budgeting and implementation issues. This draft included suggestions such as a corpus…
According to a story from sectorpublishingintelligence.co.uk, the biopharmaceutical company Orchard Therapeutics recently announced the release of some data from an ongoing proof-of-concept study. This special trial is testing the company's…
According to a publication from Biospace, British clinical drug developer Orchard Therapeutics has secured global intellectual property rights to research, manufacture, and market a gene therapy program for the treatment…
Although each disease on its own may be rare, a huge number of people are living with a rare disease-- and half of these people are children. About 30 percent of these children…
Gene Editing What is gene editing? It's been a hot topic over the last few years, but basically the concept is this: instead of disabling a malfunctioning gene, researchers are…
According to a story from medicalxpress.com, a team of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have successfully developed a strategy for editing genes that could be used to…
The first patient has been treated in the Empowers study, a clinical trial investigating an experimental gene editing therapy for the treatment of mucopolysaccharidosis type I. The source article, which…
In an effort to better understand patient experiences, researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital are surveying people with lysosomal storage diseases about how they view their treatments, reports CheckOrphan. The…
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