The Latest Breaking News from Gene Therapy

The discovery of CRISPR has allowed us to enter a new era of disease treatment. Here’s what 2024 and beyond has in store for our gene-edited future.

Meira GTx, in Shoreditch, is working on potentially revolutionary treatments for a wide array of illnesses

At $25,000 a go, the gene therapy works by turbocharging the body’s production of follistatin. It is, according to Minicircle Inc, the small US startup behind the therapy one of humanity’s best hopes for “extreme longevity”.

UCL expect to begin human trials of therapy within five years

New gene therapies promise a cure for sickle cell disease but experts say they are out of reach in places that need them the most

Biotech stocks could be at a major turning point after FDA approval of the first gene editing drug using Crispr technology. But gene editing therapies aren’t without risk, and questions remain about the safety and cost effectiveness of these experimental treatments.

Landmark decisions that mark the beginning of gene therapy using the CRISPR-Cas9 tool to treat diseases that could otherwise be cured only through bone marrow transplantation

Using the gene editing tool CRISPR, the new therapy promises a cure for those with sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia, but cost could be a barrier to care.

Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling disease in the U.K. In a statement on Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it had approved Casgevy, the…

The treatment is the first to be licensed using the gene-editing tool known as Crispr, for which its inventors were awarded the Nobel prize in 2020

Regulator's approval comes three years after scientists won Nobel Prize for inventing the treatment