ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche is buying U.S.-based gene therapy specialist Spark Therapeutics for $4.3 billion after developments in this area convinced the Swiss drugmaker to "step up", Chief Executive ...

KJ Muldoon, the first infant to undergo gene-editing therapy, has accomplished another first as a 1-year-old — his first steps KJ is walking at home ahead of Christmas after being hospitalized last ...

The baby saved from a rare disease by a first-ever personalized gene fix has reached a big milestone, taking his first steps ahead of Christmas. KJ Muldoon is walking and getting ready to celebrate ...

Henry Ford Health has treated the first Michigan patient outside clinical trials with Roctavian, the newly approved gene therapy for severe hemophilia A.

According to data published by Precedence Research, the gene therapy industry is experiencing significant growth, transitioning from small-scale, high-cost production to large-scale, cost-effective ...

The special properties of methylcellulose foam could make it a vehicle for bedside genetic engineering, according to a proof-of-principle study from bioengineers at Fred Hutch Cancer Center. In the ...

Vence L. Bonham Jr., Acting Deputy Director at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and an investigator in the National Human Genome Research Institute’s (NHGRI) Division of Intramural ...

Researchers engineered lipid nanoparticles to deliver a full CFTR gene into human airway cells, restoring near-normal ...

What you need to know: Gene therapy is a medical treatment that works by changing or fixing a person's genes to treat or prevent disease A biotechnology company in Uganda has developed a new ...