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According to DataM Intelligence, the global cell and gene therapy market reached a value of US$13.90 billion in 2024 and is ...

The search for gene therapies to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has moved in fits and starts over the past two decades, with trials starting and stopping, and their focus shifting to osteoarthritis ...

Researchers in the lab of Hans-Peter Kiem, MD, PhD, at Fred Hutch Cancer Center have devised a method that could one day treat genetic hematologic disorders by correcting how the body makes blood ...

Boston biotech Beam Therapeutics has announced initial data from a phase 1/2 trial of its gene therapy for a genetic lung and liver disease, with no serious adverse events reported among the nine ...

Viral vectors dominate gene therapy, with lentivirus, adenovirus, and AAV being key players, each with unique advantages and limitations. Non-viral vectors, such as lipid nanoparticles and GalNAc, ...

In preclinical work recently published in Nature Communications, Fred Hutch Cancer Center scientists used a genetic “chain reaction” to transform herpes simplex virus DNA during an HSV infection. The ...

There is no cure for the rare disease Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), but researchers from Drexel University's College of Medicine and the UMass Chan Medical School have achieved ...

Gene editing is now reaching the mainstream, ushering in a new era of genetic manipulation. Traditionally, inserting or deleting entire genes, regulating their expression, and altering specific ...

As we continue our series exploring genetic medicine, both in this story and in Destiny's Child No Longer: Rewriting Genetic Fate, gene therapy stands at a crossroads. On June 16, Sarepta Therapeutics ...