About a third of patients with relapsed or refractory acute leukemia experienced complete remission after taking the…
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Cancer-fighting viruses, gene therapies, and a new class of hair loss drugs are some of the year's most exciting…
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Hemgenix's list price will be $3.5 million, the highest cost yet for a single-dose drug.
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The tech giant previously barred any ads for stem cell therapies, FDA-approved or otherwise, though companies…
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Robot surgeons, humanized pig organs, and mood-boosting brain implants are some of the most futuristic medical…
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The new guidelines are restrictive but offer ways to move forward with related research.
Researchers say their experimental gene therapy was able to partially restore a man’s eyesight 40 years after he…
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A group of scientists say they’re on the verge of developing a promising treatment for chronic pain that works by…
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On Tuesday, Biotech company Bluebird suspended its trials of gene therapy as a treatment for blood-related disorders…
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An 80-year-old woman from the United Kingdom is the first patient to undergo gene therapy to treat age-related…
Gene therapies are very much at their preliminary stages of development, so it would make sense to keep tabs on…
Recent advancements in science and medicine have put cures within reach for diseases that have long plagued…
On Tuesday, a 13-year-old boy from New Jersey was at the center of medical history as he became the first person in…
Aaron Traywick, the theatrical CEO of a regulation-averse biotech company called Ascendance Biomedical who recently i…
When it comes to breakthrough therapies, sometimes it seems as though each new potentially life-saving drug comes…
The first U.S. trial using CRISPR to treat disease in people is imminent, a significant step in testing the true…
In the U.S., the first planned clinical trials of CRISPR gene editing in people are about to kick off. China,…
In the past few months, the possibility of do-it-yourself genetic engineering has exited the realm of the purely…
On Monday, the world of science awoke to news that suddenly cast uncomfortable doubt on many of the past five years’…
Ten years ago this year, Congress passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, a whopper of a law conceived…