Sentences with phrase «gene therapy startups»

Just this year, over 50 U.S. genetics and gene therapy startups raised at least $ 1 million to support genetics - based treatments, including speeding trails, improving accuracy of tests, and providing better platforms.

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Collectively, this new kind of startup can help drive down the cost of gene therapy discovery for patients.

And on Wednesday, in a major milestone for this burgeoning and potentially world - changing industry, the Dutch startup UniQure, developer of the Western world's first approved gene therapy, raised $ 82 million in its initial public offering, Reuters reports.

While it takes time for gene therapies to be tested, trialed, and possibly approved by the FDA, genetics startups like Spark, AveXis, Caribou Biosciences, Editas, and Audentes have been on the road a while.

Editas, a startup based in Cambridge and founded in November 2013, wants to eventually use the technology to treat disease by coming up with therapies that can modify faulty disease - causing genes.

In what could be the start of a new era of do - it - yourself gene therapy, the CEO of a biotech startup last month skipped town to undergo a very public round of anti-aging therapy in Latin America, reports MIT Technology Review.

Oisín Biotechnology — a startup with initial funding from SENS Research Foundation, the Methuselah Foundation, and others — is close behind them, having developed a form of gene therapy that — in animals at least — also destroys these cells, using an approach that is less inherently likely to destroy healthy cells along with senescent ones.

A handful of biotechnology startups are vying to bring CRISPR - based therapies to market, hoping to cure cystic fibrosis and certain forms of blindness, among other conditions, by getting rid of the bad genes that cause them.