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Gene Therapy in a Box – MIT Technology Review

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2017-03-08 NEWS

MIT Technology Review

Gene Therapy in a Box
MIT Technology Review
Jennifer Adair carried out her first gene therapy experiment several years ago. A cancer treatment, it involved collecting blood from a patient, and then adding to these cells a new strand of DNA—a gene—that would protect them from a powerful

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2017-03-08 NEWS

Editas Medicine Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Results and Update
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“In 2016, we significantly broadened our scientific platform with CRISPR/Cpf1 and advanced forms of CRISPR/Cas9, demonstrated proof-of-editing in vivo for our most advanced program in LCA10, and expanded our leadership team with the addition of our …

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2017-03-08 NEWS

Genetic Literacy Project

Green genes: Germany’s top organic researcher says environmentalists should embrace sustainable CRISPR gene …
Genetic Literacy Project
[Editor’s note: The following is a Q&A with Urs Niggli, director of the Research Institute for Organic Agriculture in Germany. It has been translated from German by Google.] New techniques are currently revolutionizing genetic research. They allow

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2017-03-07 NEWS

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Zeroing In on CAR T-Cell Therapy
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Then, a treatment counselor at the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society suggested a clinical trial of chimeric antigen receptor Tcell (CAR T) therapy, a new technique in which doctors extract some of a patient’s immune cells, alter them, and then re-infuse

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2017-03-07 NEWS

Dosing underway in REGENXBIO’s early-stage study of gene therapy RGX-501 in HoFH
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The first patient has been dosed in REGENXBIO’s (NASDAQ:RGNX) Phase 1/2 clinical trial assessing gene therapy RGX-501 for the treatment of homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH). Interim results are expected by year-end. The trial is an …
REGENXBIO Announces Initiation of Phase I/II Clinical Trial of RGX-501 for the Treatment of Homozygous Familial …Yahoo Finance

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