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Title    Gene Therapy to Kill Cancer Moves a Step Closer to Market
Date    Sunday July 16 2017, @06:09AM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the bespoke-treatments dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/07/15/1633242

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

A new era of treating disease has moved a step closer to reality in the United States.

A Food and Drug Administration panel gave a thumbs-up Wednesday to a gene therapy that involves genetically engineering a patient's T-cells to fight a particular type of leukemia, The New York Times reports.

If the FDA agrees with the panel's recommendation and moves to approve the treatment for commercial use, it would be the first such gene-altering treatment to make it to market.

[...] Once the stuff of science fiction, altering human genes has been creeping into reality of late. Also on Wednesday, researchers at Harvard announced they'd managed to encode video files into the genetic material of living cells, demonstrating the viability of a "molecular recorder" that could lead to more disease treatments in the future.

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Links

  1. "following story" - https://www.cnet.com/news/leukemia-fda-gene-therapy-novartis-ctl019/#ftag=CAD590a51e
  2. "The New York Times" - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/health/fda-novartis-leukemia-gene-medicine.html
  3. "encode video files into the genetic material of living cells" - https://www.cnet.com/news/dna-biotechnology-molecular-recorder-crispr-george-church-video-cells-harvard/
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=21249

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