New gene therapy for patients with blistering skin disorder
Patients with a rare genetic skin condition have been successfully treated, for the first time, using a novel gene therapy...
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Patients with a rare genetic skin condition have been successfully treated, for the first time, using a novel gene therapy...
StemGenex, a now-closed stem cell clinic in San Diego, California, has agreed to pay out US$3.65 million as a class action settlement to its former patients for ineffective stem cell treatments they received...
by Ochuko Oyeye
A long-running legal dispute between a US stem cell treatment provider and their unsatisfied customers has reached a settlement...
In January 2022, a heart transplant patient named David Bennett became world famous when it was reported that the 'donor' of the heart that had saved his life was – a pig...
Surgeons have successfully transplanted a pig heart into a human recipient for the first time, enabled by genome editing...
Scientists have created a 'blastoid' model of the human embryo at early-stages that can successfully attach to uterine cells in vitro, mimicking the implantation of an embryo in the mother's uterus...
by Dr Avi Lerner and 1 others
In harmony with great scientific discoveries, technological breakthroughs have transformed the fields of genetics and fertility treatments. Advances in technology provide society with opportunities and risks, and FemTech is no different...
A recent study found that preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy may not improve live birth rate...
In the USA, clinics offering stem cell therapies not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration expanded four-fold in just five years...
The National Institutes for Health, Food and Drug Administration and 15 pharmaceuticals and non-profit organisations have joined together to accelerate the development of gene therapies in the USA...
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