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The news: Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration approved sales of the first gene therapy that is directly applied to the body—as well as...
Krystal is among dozens of companies seeking innovative ways to deliver replacement genes to more locations in the human body, including hard-to-reach organs like the brain....
Researchers have come up with a novel therapy to eliminate the harmful tau protein, which is primarily responsible for Alzheimer’s disease. A first-of-its-kind research trial conducted...
A team of researchers has made a breakthrough discovery, which they believe could now pave way for effective, reversible and non-hormonal male contraception. Researchers from Washington...
Irreversible vision loss may no longer be a major problem soon after scientists found a way to alter the genes affecting different cells needed by the...
Scientists have identified rare damaging gene variants associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia. The multi-center study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai...
A California couple’s wish to become parents to a child without a cancer gene went horribly wrong when a fertility center implanted an embryo with the...
Last year, biotech startup Minicircle started recruiting participants for a clinical trial of gene therapy. But several details made it unusual. For one, it instructed would-be...
Follistatin is a glycoprotein encoded by the FST gene. To Minicircle, its most interesting property is that it suppresses myostatin, a protein that inhibits muscle growth....
A baby girl, born with a rare genetic disorder, who could not even lift her head, and had seizure-like episodes, became the recipient of the first...
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