Breakthrough for sickle cell anaemia: How this home-grown gene editing tool can make therapy cheaper, effective

The CRISPR Cas9 gene editing tool — the genetic scissors that won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — is essentially based on ...
The Business Journals

Gene-editing therapy gives teen with sickle cell disease a chance for a brighter future

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Ryan Dodson, 18, was diagnosed with sickle cell disease ...
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Gene therapy uptake in sickle cell stays slow, despite patient interest

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Why gene therapy for sickle cell is slow to catch on with patients

A view of paintings related to sickle cell on a table as Dominique Goodson, who has sickle cell and advocates for awareness about the disease, takes a phone call in her room at her home in the ...

India Launches 1st Indigenous, Low-Cost Gene Therapy For Sickle Cell Disease

The world-class, low-cost gene editing solution named "BIRSA 101", in honour of Bhagwan Birsa Munda, remembered as a great ...
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India's First Low-Cost CRISPR Gene Therapy Targets Sickle Cell Disease

The launch of BIRSA 101 marks a major breakthrough in CRISPR gene-editing technology, positioning India to deliver affordable ...
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Sickle cell patient Braxton Hubbard feels 'amazing' after gene therapy treatment

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Sickle cell anemia disproportionately affects Black people, causing severe pain, potential organ damage and in some cases, death. Many times, only blood transfusions can provide ...
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FDA-approved gene therapies bring hope for sickle cell patients, but high costs pose challenges

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's been more than a month since the FDA approved two milestone gene-editing treatments for sickle cell disease, but lining up patients for these therapies will be a challenge ...
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A sickle cell first: Base editing, a new form of gene therapy, leaves patient feeling 'more than fine'

Though he doesn't remember it, Branden Baptiste had his first sickle cell crisis at age 2. Through elementary school, he was in and out of the hospital with pain episodes, not knowing why. As he got ...
The Nation Newspaper

Sickle cell: Experts urges adoption of gene therapy

Public health experts have emphasised the urgent need for Nigeria to adopt life-changing gene therapy for the treatment of sickle cell disease. Official data shows that approximately 4 million ...
Devdiscourse

India Unveils First Indigenous CRISPR Therapy ‘BIRSA 101’ to Eliminate Sickle Cell

Launching the therapy, Dr. Jitendra Singh declared that India has officially begun its decisive march toward a Sickle ...
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Why gene therapy for sickle cell is slow to catch on with patients

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Student Zoe Davis, 20, was just weeks into her junior year when she landed back in the hospital with severe sickle cell pain earlier this month. She is doing what she can to ...