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During an important Pfizer medical trial a young boy suffered a fatal sudden cardiac arrest after receiving experimental gene therapy.

Tragedy Strikes

Genetics

"We grieve this loss."

Young Patient Dies After Receiving Pfizer Gene Therapy

Scientists from Texas have developed a method to control gene expression by switching them on and off via molecular means.

New Genes

Developments

Imagine curing diseases by the flick of a switch.

Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Way to Turn Genes On and Off Like Light Switches

A team of researchers has kicked off the first-ever trial of a gene therapy that they say can cure a type of deafness.

Therapeutic Genes

"The hair cells are working, but they are not talking to the nerve."

Doctors Testing Gene Therapy to Cure a Type of Deafness

A team of scientists took a bunch of alcoholic macaque monkeys and then successfully weaned them off alcohol after a round of gene therapy.

Monkey See, Monkey Do

"We are entering an era of gene therapy for neurological disorders."

New Gene Therapy Dramatically Reduces Booze Consumption in Alcoholic Monkeys

Researchers discovered a new mechanism that could force cancer cells to self-destruct, hijacking their ability to replicate uncontrollably.

Cancer Self Destruction

Cancer

This gene therapy could turn cancer cells against themselves.

Scientists Intrigued by Clever Trick That Makes Cancer Cells Self-Destruct

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primates, potentially laying the groundwork for human treatment.

Younger Eyes

The implications could be huge.

Gene Therapy Gives Primates Young Eyes Again

A team of Harvard Medical School scientists has come up with a new drug-like cocktail of molecules that can successfully regenerate hair cells.

What?

They claim to have found the "holy grail" of the hearing loss field.

Scientists May Have Figured Out How to Regenerate Lost Hearing

San Diego-based biotech startup Rejuvenate Bio has claimed that its technology was able to extend the lives of old mice.

Cell Rejuvenation

It's a huge claim to make.

Scientists Say They Gene Hacked Mice to Double Remaining Lifespan

Hemgenix is the latest form of a gene therapy drug to be approved by the FDA, and it's now the most expensive drug in the world. Too expensive.

Bleed You Dry

Treatments

The latest breakthrough in gene therapies for hemophilia comes in the form of the most expensive drug in the world.

18-Year-Old Patient Says $3.5 Million Hemophilia Drug He Needs Seems a "Little Steep"

Using a new gene therapy technique, researchers at the University of California San Diego reduced neuropathic pain in mice that were experiencing spinal cord or other nerve injuries — and with no side effects.

Deleting Pain

This could be huge.

Scientists Eliminate Chronic Pain in Mice and Primates Using Gene Therapy

An experimental gene therapy drastically improved the eyesight — and ability to see color — of volunteers with a rare genetic condition.

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