A new gene therapy treatment has restored some sight in a handful of blind patients suffering from Leber's congenital amaurosis, a syndrome in which, because of a broken or missing gene called RPE65, retinal photoreceptor cells malfunction and eventually die.
Not exact matches
Approved
treatments included
gene therapies and the first
new drugs for rare diseases in many years.
And a third, different kind of
gene therapy from Spark Therapeutics — to treat a rare inherited form of blindness — is likely to be approved by the end of 2017, too, making this year a landmark for
treatments that manipulate the body's own biological mechanisms in novel
new ways to fight deadly diseases.
So far, its trials have shown it can improve outcomes when used alongside other multiple myeloma drugs and that could offer it some insulation if the market gets disrupted by
new treatment approaches, such as
gene therapy.
Risk Versus Reward: The Value of Cell
Therapy for Patients and Investors Source: Streetwise Reports (4/25/18) The cell therapy space, encompassing disruptive new treatment including stem cell therapy, immunotherapy and gene editing, has begun to mature, with a handful of product approvals and others in late - stage devel
Therapy for Patients and Investors Source: Streetwise Reports (4/25/18) The cell
therapy space, encompassing disruptive new treatment including stem cell therapy, immunotherapy and gene editing, has begun to mature, with a handful of product approvals and others in late - stage devel
therapy space, encompassing disruptive
new treatment including stem cell
therapy, immunotherapy and gene editing, has begun to mature, with a handful of product approvals and others in late - stage devel
therapy, immunotherapy and
gene editing, has begun to mature, with a handful of product approvals and others in late - stage development.
The cell
therapy space, encompassing disruptive
new treatment including stem cell
therapy, immunotherapy and
gene editing, has begun to mature, with a handful of product approvals and others in late - stage development.
New treatments for spinal cord injury, including stem cells,
gene therapy and electrical stimulation, are being studied.
«Steep funding cuts for the federal health agencies are counterproductive at a time when innovative research is moving us closer to identifying solutions for rare diseases,
new prevention strategies to protect Americans from deadly and costly conditions, advances in
gene therapy,
new technologies for understanding the brain, and
treatments that harness the ability of our immune system to fight cancer.»
These include the ability to bring
new, innovative products to the market; progress in oncology, such as the approval of Genentech's drug Avastin for breast cancer and advances in the use of
gene therapy, despite some setbacks; continuing progress in research on stem cells; the emergence of
treatments for previously untreated diseases; and solutions for food and fuel shortages, such as biocrops and biofuels.
One early success story is cystic fibrosis: since the
gene was identified in 1989, exceptional progress has been made in devising
new experimental
treatments, including
gene therapy trials.
A bone marrow transplant is the only standard
treatment, but the
gene therapy approach, developed by researchers at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy in Milan, Italy, offers a new line of att
gene therapy approach, developed by researchers at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy in Milan, Italy, offers a new line of
therapy approach, developed by researchers at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for
Gene Therapy in Milan, Italy, offers a new line of att
Gene Therapy in Milan, Italy, offers a new line of
Therapy in Milan, Italy, offers a
new line of attack.
As a
new generation of
gene therapy clinical trials shows promise to cure or halt the progression of several rare diseases, the time has come to explore ways to pay for the cutting edge
treatments, a pediatric hematologist - oncologist from Dana - Farber / Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center argues in a commentary published by the journal Science.
Noting the potential of
gene therapy to be a one - time
treatment for rare and serious diseases that otherwise cost hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in chronic care over a lifetime, Stuart Orkin, MD, and co-author Philip Reilly, MD, JD, of Third Rock Ventures, seek to «catalyze the discussion» by suggesting several
new models for valuing, pricing and developing
gene therapy.
According to Saura, «this study opens up
new perspectives on therapeutic prevention and
treatment of Alzheimer's disease, given that we have demonstrated that a
gene therapy which activates the Crtc1 protein is effective in preventing the loss of memory in lab mice».
The research, part of a phase I clinical trial to test the safety of the
treatment, was published as a letter to the editor in The
New England Journal of Medicine earlier this week and will be in the September issue of Human
Gene Therapy.
Newer cancer
treatments, like adoptive T cell
therapy, use a variety of ways to strengthen T cells for the fight and He says the mouse receptor
genes could be another way to do that.
At a time when
gene therapy has been revived as a potent form of cancer
treatment, a
new approach would use nanoparticles, rather than viruses, to deliver strands of DNA or RNA to tumors.
April 23, 2018 Ultragenyx Announces Filing and FDA Clearance of an Investigational
New Drug Application for DTX401, a
Gene Therapy for the
Treatment of Glycogen Storage Disease Type Ia
Sangamo Biosciences (Nasdaq: SGMO, US) The company is pioneering a
new sophisticated approach for
treatment of HIV patients by cell
gene therapy.
Endari, the first
new treatment for patients with sickle cell disease in almost 20 years, Genentech's Hemlibra, the first - ever non-blood product to treat patients with hemophilia A with inhibitors, Actemra, the first
treatment for adults diagnosed with giant cell arteritis, BioMarin's Brineura, the first
treatment for a form of Batten disease, Benznidazole, the first U.S.
treatment for Chagas disease, Novartis» Kymriah to treat certain children and young adults with B - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which is also the first
gene therapy to become available in the United States, are some of the drugs that received the FDA's stamp of approval in 2017.
We believe that this
new form of
gene therapy may offer X-linked SCID patients the best available
treatment for their disorder.
A
new animal study involving virally - delivered
gene therapies has indicated that high
treatment doses might not be as safe as previous human trials have suggested
A significant percentage of children and young adults with
treatment - resistant B - cell leukemia achieved remission through a
new CAR T - cell
gene therapy that destroys cancer cells with the CD22 molecule on its surface.
The platform serves as a potential way to help researchers quickly discover
new carriers for a broad range of
treatments, from small molecules to
gene therapies.
This work, published in «Blood», was carried out by the CNIO Telomeres and Telomerase Group The
treatment is based on the transport of the telomerase
gene to the bone marrow cells using
gene therapy, a completely
new strategy in the
treatment of aplastic anaemia
The recent FDA approval of a
gene therapy for leukemia
treatment marks a
new frontier in medical innovation for the field of cancer immunotherapy.
New treatments are being tested to tackle the crippling difficulties of vertigo, including a clinical trial of prosthetic ear implants and ear
gene therapy, with initial work revealing novel aspects of brain anatomy linked to balance which could be used as targets for future
treatments.