Genes themselves are a relatively new discovery, found only about a century ago. Gene therapy, a medical procedure that alters genes to address disease, is a concept a few decades…
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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats is more commonly known as CRISPR. As reported recently in Science News, the CRISPR/Cas9 “molecular scissors” is slated to make its highly anticipated debut…
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Allergan plc, a leading global pharmaceutical company, and its partner, Editas Medicine, Inc. have been given the green light for a clinical trial designed to treat patients with severe…
According to a story from BioPharma Dive, the advent of gene therapy development at Spark Therapeutics has been five years in the making. At this juncture, it has been nearly…
Ocugen Pharmaceuticals has just received their first ever orphan drug designation by the FDA for a gene therapy treatment. It's called OCU400 and it's being investigated as a treatment for…
According to a story from pm360online.com, the drug developer Novartis has recently announced that the company's gene therapy Luxturna has gained approval in the EU as a treatment for Leber's…
According to a story from Eye on the Cure, the biopharmaceutical company Ophthotech is hard at work researching and developing gene therapy solutions for a variety of rare retinal conditions.…
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