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Once bed ridden, Houston woman with new lease on life joins fight to make stem cell therapy available in the US – KTRK-TV

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2017-05-19 NEWS

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Once bed ridden, Houston woman with new lease on life joins fight to make stem cell therapy available in the US
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The United States Food and Drug Administration regulates the Celltex lab in Houston where Dr. Jones can culture a patient’s stem cells. To perform the actual transfusion therapy, Sarah Hughes had to travel to Mexico, a country that has approved Celltex

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FDA Awards Fast-track Status to Sangamo’s Investigational Gene Therapy SB-525 for Hemophila A
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast-track status to SB-525, a clinical gene therapy for hemophilia A developed by Sangamo Therapeutics in partnership with Pfizer. SB-525 delivers a human factor VIII cDNA construct and synthetic …

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2017-05-19 NEWS

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A New Potential ALS Gene Therapy Delivers A Key Milestone
ALS Research Forum
One approach, which involves gene therapy, suppresses expression of the SOD1 gene through RNA silencing-based mechanisms. This strategy, according to a 2016 study led by University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Christian Mueller, can extend the …