Gene therapy represents one of medicine’s most ambitious attempts to treat disease at its root cause by altering the genetic code itself. The approach works by recovering the functions of critical ...

Astellas Gene Therapies remains intent on treating X-linked Myotubular Myopathy (XLMTM) through a gene therapy—but instead of AAV-based resamirigene bilparvovec (AT132), Astellas is now partnering ...

A single one-time gene therapy could free patients with α-thalassemia, a rare and debilitating blood disorder, from the burden of lifelong transfusions. A single one-time gene therapy could free ...

CHICAGO, Nov 8 (Reuters) - A single infusion of CRISPR Therapeutics' (CRSP.BN), opens new tab experimental gene therapy was safe and reduced levels of harmful LDL cholesterol and triglycerides by half ...

Lowering cholesterol is one of the most effective ways to reduce your risk of heart disease, and it may soon be possible to get a one-and-done gene therapy to keep cholesterol and triglyceride levels ...

LEANDER, Texas — Andrew Revell leaned into his father as he pulled up from his wheelchair to stand, his legs trembling with effort. It had been more than a year since he joined a clinical trial for a ...

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 ...

Treatment with onasemnogene abeparvovec gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type 1 was associated with less need for nutritional support or nighttime ventilation compared to recommended ...

Intellia Therapeutics CEO John Leonard explained the circumstances of the patient death at the JP Morgan Healthcare ...