by University of North Carolina Health Care Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine have reported in the journal JCI Insight encouraging early tests of a gene therapy strategy against Angelman syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder that features poor muscle control and balance, hard-to-treat epilepsy, and intellectual disabilities. Angelman syndrome affects roughly one in every 20,000 children,...
by University of Sheffield Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the University of Sheffield have discovered a new gene therapy pathway that has uncovered an important regulatory mechanism to keep our genome healthy. This pathway has the potential to protect us against serious life-limiting diseases such as cancer and dementia. Cancer and neurodegeneration are two major health...
Such treatments are extraordinarily promising and costly. Will the Biden administration commit to spending that could speed clinical trial results? Helen Obando, at home in Mesa, Ariz. An experimental gene therapy she received last year successfully rid her of her sickle cell disease, eliminating her intense suffering and transforming her into a teenager like any...
by Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Credit: CC0 Public Domain Genetic muscle diseases lead to progressive muscle wasting and often early death, with few treatment options and no cure. Some gene therapies that use a harmless virus to deliver a functioning copy of a disease-causing gene to cells have shown promise in clinical trials for...
Currently, the only treatment is a corneal transplant, major surgery with associated risks and potential complications. “When you do a transplant you make a huge difference for that person, but it’s a big deal for the patient with lots of visits, lots of eye drops, lots of co-pays, and if you had a medical treatment...
SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE IMAGE: JOSÉ LUIS MILLÁN, PH.D., IS A PROFESSOR IN THE HUMAN GENETICS PROGRAM AT SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS. CREDIT: SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS LA JOLLA, CALIF. – June 7, 2021 – A preclinical study led by scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys has established that AAV8-TNAP-D10–a gene therapy that replaces a key...
by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Credit: CC0 Public Domain A St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital analysis found a major gap between the cost to manufacture and distribute hemophilia B gene therapy and the $2 million-plus price reportedly under consideration for hemophilia gene therapy now in development. The study appeared online in the journal Blood. It is the first to report gene...
Doctors for the first time have used a form of gene therapy to restore partial vision in a blind person, according to findings announced Monday. The research team genetically altered retinal ganglion cells to become light-sensitive in a man whose vision was destroyed by retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disorder that breaks down cells that absorb and convert light into brain signals. Using special goggles,...
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University have found a key new piece of the puzzle in the quest to use gene therapy to enable people born deaf to hear. The work centers around a large gene responsible for an inner-ear protein, otoferlin. Mutations in otoferlin are linked to severe congenital hearing loss, a common type...
by Tiare Dunlap, University of California, Los Angeles Six of the children who received treatment at UCLA through the gene therapy clinical trials. Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center An experimental form of gene therapy developed by a team of researchers from UCLA and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London has successfully treated 48 of 50 children born with...
