How to Use gene therapy in a Sentence
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The promise of cell and gene therapies has long intrigued scientists, but progress was slow, with many setbacks.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 12 May 2024
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Sanath Ramesh is now working on a gene therapy through Open Treatments.
—Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 31 Mar. 2021
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Although eye-popping, such a price tag isn’t out of step with other one-time gene therapies, which have topped $3 million per patient in recent years.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 20 June 2024
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The Cambridge firm acts as a holding company that incubates, launches, and runs multiple biotech companies focused on cell and gene therapy.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2021
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The 13-year-old firm has yet to win approval of a gene therapy.
—Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
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And to gene therapy experts, the price tag is not a surprise.
—WIRED, 5 Dec. 2022
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The field of gene therapy was set back greatly when a patient died.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2022
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In 2012, gene therapy cured a girl named Emily who had leukemia.
—AZCentral.com, 26 June 2023
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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
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In the intervening 20 years, the field of gene therapy had begun to make a comeback.
—Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
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The only downside here is that the gene therapy that can heal old wounds isn’t permanent.
—Joe Wituschek, BGR, 23 Dec. 2022
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Both gene therapies are approved for patients ages 12 years and up.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2023
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But there are also patients who cannot wait for gene therapy.
—Gina Kolata, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
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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
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Yet gene therapy cannot undo all the effects of sickle cell.
—Gina Kolata, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
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But gene therapy seems to work wonders against the condition in cats, and Graff’s colleagues plan to adapt a treatment for its analogs in kids.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 July 2021
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To rid muscles of that toxin, gene therapy has to get to every muscle cell.
—New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
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The first patient in the trial received the gene therapy in December 2022.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
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Twenty-three years ago, the field of gene therapy was bursting with the promise of breakthrough treatments.
—Eric B. Kmiec, STAT, 13 July 2022
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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
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This isn’t the first time researchers have attempted to use gene therapy for hearing loss.
—WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The death was determined to be unrelated to the gene therapy.
—Megan Molteni, STAT, 12 July 2021
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Watch that story in the video below: Could gene therapy cure sickle cell anemia?
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
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The first approval for any gene therapy came in 2018 for a mutation that causes blindness.
—Ron Winslow, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2022
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Twenty-two years ago, one of scientists’ first attempts at gene therapy ended in tragedy when a young man died.
—Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 18 May 2021
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