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Gene therapy shows encouraging results in sickle cell patients
Researchers report successful gene-based treatment in a trial aimed at curing sickle cell disease, improving patients' health outcomes.
New gene therapy restores hearing in kids with hereditary deafness
Hearing loss affects more than 1.5 billion people worldwide, with congenital deafness making up about 26 million of those individuals
Sickle cell affects more families in Africa and India, but new gene...
For gene therapy to even be an option, people in developing nations must stay alive long enough to get it.
UK approves world’s 1st gene therapy to treat sickle-cell, thalassemia
Both sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia are genetic conditions caused by errors in the genes for haemoglobin, which is used by red blood cells...
UK hospital launches world-first gene therapy trial to cure rare...
Auditory neuropathy can be due to a variation in a single gene -- known as the OTOF gene -- which produces a protein called otoferlin.
Study finds method of delivering clinically used gene therapy vectors
The method also allows proteins and other tiny molecules to travel in the opposite way, from the brain to the bloodstream, where they may be easily...
Study finds way to deliver clinically used gene therapy vectors
The method also allows proteins and other tiny molecules to travel in the opposite way, from the brain to the bloodstream, where they may be easily...
Gene therapy for brain tumour shows promising results in human trials
Further, the study found that this treatment wasn't toxic to the patients, suggesting that the highest dose used in this trial could be used in future...