Ancient viral DNA found to regulate human gene expression
A new international study suggests that ancient viral DNA embedded in our genome, which were long dismissed as genetic "junk", ...
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Sarepta gene therapy deaths must not halt Duchenne progress
They say death is one of life’s few certainties. For a boy or young man living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, ...
Gene essential for vitamin D absorption could help unlock treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Vitamin D is not only an essential nutrient, but also the precursor of the hormone calcitriol, ...
Sarepta Slashes Staff, Maps Path Forward for Gene Therapy and Narrower Pipeline
Sarepta Therapeutics’ report of a second fatality this year in a patient dosed with its Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy ...
New UAB-developed gene therapy for ALS receives orphan drug designation
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to a new gene therapy for Amyotrophic Lateral ...
Eating to Downregulate a Gene for Metastatic Cancer
Women with breast cancer should include the “liberal culinary use of cruciferous vegetables.” Both the Women’s Intervention Nutrition Study and ...
Sarepta Stops Stop Shipments of Muscular Dystrophy Gene Therapy After Second Patient Death
A patient has died after receiving Sarepta Therapeutics’ approved gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy — the second fatality reported ...
Second patient dies after getting Sarepta’s Duchenne gene therapy
Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.45.Sarepta Therapeutics ...
We’re reading about Roche antibiotic, a gene therapy patient death
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite — which was longer than usual ...
What Baby KJ means for future of CRISPR gene editing industry
For the ailing gene editing industry, hope came earlier this month in the tiny, smiling, fuzzy-headed form of KJ Muldoon. ...
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