How to Use gene therapy in a Sentence

gene therapy

noun

• The 13-year-old firm has yet to win approval of a gene therapy.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
• And to gene therapy experts, the price tag is not a surprise.
  — WIRED, 5 Dec. 2022
• The field of gene therapy was set back greatly when a patient died.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2022
• In 2012, gene therapy cured a girl named Emily who had leukemia.
  — AZCentral.com, 26 June 2023
• The agency is working to hire a bunch of top-notch scientists to work on cell and gene therapies.
  — Rachel Cohrs Reprints, STAT, 1 Feb. 2024
• In the intervening 20 years, the field of gene therapy had begun to make a comeback.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
• The only downside here is that the gene therapy that can heal old wounds isn’t permanent.
  — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 23 Dec. 2022
• Both gene therapies are approved for patients ages 12 years and up.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2023
• But there are also patients who cannot wait for gene therapy.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• Last year, two patients in a study of a high-dose gene therapy for a rare muscle disorder died.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 31 Oct. 2021
• Yet gene therapy cannot undo all the effects of sickle cell.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• To rid muscles of that toxin, gene therapy has to get to every muscle cell.
  — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• The first patient in the trial received the gene therapy in December 2022.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
• Twenty-three years ago, the field of gene therapy was bursting with the promise of breakthrough treatments.
  — Eric B. Kmiec, STAT, 13 July 2022
• One of the patients who saw great success with gene therapy has suffered from open wounds his entire life.
  — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 23 Dec. 2022
• This isn’t the first time researchers have attempted to use gene therapy for hearing loss.
  — WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
• Bluebird Bio expects to submit its gene therapy to the F.D.A. for approval next year.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2022
• In the study, six female cats were treated with the gene therapy at two different doses, while three cats were the controls.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 June 2023
• Seng Cheng has been working in gene therapy for nearly as long as gene therapy has been a field.
  — Jason Mast, STAT, 1 Sep. 2023
• According to the results, all of the control cats produced kittens, but none of the cats that received the gene therapy got pregnant.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 June 2023
• The therapy, Zynteglo, is just the third gene therapy approved by the FDA, and the first to target a chronic blood disease.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 22 Aug. 2022
• Watch that story in the video below: Could gene therapy cure sickle cell anemia?
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
• The first approval for any gene therapy came in 2018 for a mutation that causes blindness.
  — Ron Winslow, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2022
• And although a viable gene therapy is much further off, scientists have managed to delete Fel d 1 from cat cells in a petri dish.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2021
• Many gene therapy startups haven’t lived up to their initial promise.
  — Aayushi Pratap, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• Seachord had a kidney transplant before the gene therapy and is doing well.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
• The gene therapy approach just wasn’t giving a big success story.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 31 Oct. 2022
• Other gene therapies approved in recent years have been priced as high as $3.5 million.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
• Mamcarz’s team has treated a total of 18 infants with this gene therapy.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
• The agency has promised to render a final decision on Bluebird’s gene therapy, called beti-cel, by Aug. 19.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 13 June 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024