STATFirst Look: Scientists ready to test gene therapy for Pompe diseaseSTATith a final preclinical study now published, a gene therapy designed by Duke University researchers to improve treatment for the genetic disorder Pompe disease is set to enter a… Continue reading
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That Other Biotech Patent Interference
Forbes As has been written about—at length—elsewhere, much of the biotech world awaits the outcome of a patent dispute over CRISPR, a revolutionary form of gene-editing biotechnology worth many billions of dollars. Unlike a typical patent dispute in federal … |
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Gene therapy cures UAE boy from bone marrow illness
Zawya “We witnessed an instant change in the tumours and bruises that Khalifa had and which started to disappear in three to four weeks after the gene therapy,” Saeed told Zawya in an interview on Tuesday on the sidelines of the Arab Health exhibition in Dubai. 4-year-old Emirati comes out of the ‘bubble’ to playful selfKhaleej Times |
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Stem cells A key to totipotency
Nature.com Pluripotent stem cells — embryonic stem cells (ES cells, which are derived from the blastocyst inner cell mass (ICM)) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs; obtained through somatic reprogramming) — can give rise to all embryonic cell types, but … |
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Interview: Gene therapy cures four-year old Emirati from bone marrow illness
Zawya “We witnessed an instant change in the tumours and bruises that Khalifa had and which started to disappear in three to four weeks after the gene therapy,” Saeed told Zawya in an interview on Tuesday on the sidelines of the Arab Health exhibition in Dubai. Four-year-old Emirati comes out of the ‘bubble’ to playful selfKhaleej Times |