In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success by using gene therapy to transform patients' blood cells into ...
Gene therapy represents one of medicine’s most ambitious attempts to treat disease at its root cause by altering the genetic code itself. The approach works by recovering the functions of critical ...
In a worldwide first, a one-and-done gene therapy has been approved to treat a form of hereditary deafness. Many of the ...
Beta thalassemia major, also known as Cooley’s anemia and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia, causes the body’s red blood ...
In a landmark breakthrough for modern medicine, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever gene therapy designed to treat genetic hearing loss. Developed by Regeneron ...
The search for gene therapies to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has moved in fits and starts over the past two decades, with trials starting and stopping, and their focus shifting to osteoarthritis ...
Up to three in every 1,000 newborns is born with hearing loss in one or both ears. While cochlear implants have long been a life-changing option, they involve surgery and can't fully replicate the ...
People looking to lose weight and lower their blood sugar may someday be able to get a single injection that turns their cells into tiny factories churning out a protein that is essentially the active ...
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Dr. Donald Kohn has been developing gene therapies for rare pediatric immune disorders for over 30 years. This week, his role in a clinical trial has culminated in the first-ever U.S. Food and Drug ...
When Santa Claus brought 10-year-old Kathy High a junior chemistry set for Christmas more than 60 years ago, he helped spark a lifelong interest in science, and today the North Carolina native — now ...
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