Vertex Pharmaceuticals said on Saturday its gene therapy helped children aged between 5 and 11 years with sickle cell disease ...

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Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To address these challenges, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

Five years ago this month, in November 2020, medical history was made at Richmond Pharmacology when a patient received the ...

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If the gene therapy treatment is proven to be effective in curing the sickle cell disease, it will initially be made available to people with severe sickle cell disease, maybe with organ damage.