A research study in which new ways to prevent, detect, diagnose, or treat disease are tested on human participants.
The updating of the HFEA's traffic light system for add-ons highlights an inherent problem with gathering evidence for these treatments...
A gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease has led to a build-up of cells with genetic mutations that make them grow faster, increasing blood-cancer risk, researchers revealed...
CRISPR base editing therapy reduced cholesterol levels in the blood of a small cohort of patients, clinical trial interim data has shown...
A CRISPR-based treatment for sickle cell disease is one step closer to approval after an advisory committee for the US Food and Drug Administration met to review its safety...
A gene therapy trial in China has restored hearing in children born with a rare genetic form of deafness...
The Human Fertility and Embryology Authority has updated its traffic light system for IVF treatment add-ons, to have five categories, rather than three...
A stem-cell therapy usually used to treat blood cancer has been shown to be effective at slowing progression of multiple sclerosis symptoms...
The focus by paediatricians on the FDA's recent committee to discuss artificial placenta technology is on the fetus/baby, but the ethical considerations should be much wider than that argues Dr Elizabeth Chloe Romanis…
The US Food and Drug Administration's Advisory Committee for Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies has voted that there is insufficient evidence that experimental stem-cell therapy for ALS is effective enough to warrant approval by the agency...
Researchers have found that counselling before or after taking a genetic test to assess the risk of developing ovarian or breast cancer does not reduce distress, anxiety or depression...
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