NHS to provide gene therapy for rare eye disease
An in-body gene therapy treatment has been approved to treat a rare genetic form of blindness...
A delivery system used in the laboratory to carry foreign DNA into a cell. Modified viruses are commonly used as vectors in gene therapy.
by Jen Willows
An in-body gene therapy treatment has been approved to treat a rare genetic form of blindness...
Monkeys with an inserted human gene involved in brain development performed better on cognitive tasks, a new study has found...
by James Close
The first in vivo genome editing therapy has been successful in editing patients' DNA, but has not shown a clinical benefit...
Scientists in Japan have harnessed genome editing to successfully block the HIV virus from replicating inside infected cells....
by Marcia Costa
A clinical trial that used a new gene therapy to treat beta-thalassemia has shown very promising results...
by Anna Mallach
Researchers in the USA have developed a new RNA editing approach, which could be beneficial in treating dementia...
by Ewa Zotow
Animals given high doses of gene-carrying viruses in a new gene-therapy trial showed signs of severe toxicity.
by Rikita Patel
The human adaptive immune response against the Cas9 protein - part of the CRISPR genome editing system — may pose a barrier to new therapies, suggests a new study...
A gene therapy has been used to restore normal blood sugar levels in mice with type 1 diabetes, according to a study published this month in the journal Cell Stem Cell.
A new gene therapy for haemophilia A has exceeded expectations in a recent clinical trial...
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