The Latest Breaking News from Gene Therapy

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first gene therapy to treat a deadly form of muscular dystrophy

The drug manufacturer will also fund the clinical trials and launch the products in India and emerging markets. Additionally, it will establish a GMP (good manufacturing practice) facility at the Techno Park facility of IIT-K, Laurus said on Monday.

Gene therapy has helped doctors make major strides in treating inherited blindness, and it's now being explored for other conditions.

An estimated 295 million people suffer from visual impairment globally. Around 43 million of those people are living with blindness. While not every form of blindness can be cured, recent scientific breakthroughs have uncovered new ways to treat some forms of inherited blindness through gene therapy.

Nicola Kelleher's partner Bradley Benjamin has a hereditary kidney disease which has seen him suffer on dialysis for years - and they didn't want the same outcome for their child

The FDA is considering greenlighting the experimental treatment under its accelerated approvals program. Some critics point out the therapy isn't yet proven to work and may be costly.

A world-first trial at UCL and UCLH has found a new gene therapy for Alzheimer's disease that is able to safely lower levels of the harmful tau protein known to cause the disease. Read further on Dynamite News:

Gene therapies treat or prevent disease by tweaking the content or expression of cells' DNA.

A cure for a deadly spinal disorder will be given out on the NHS after pioneering gene therapy costing £1.8million was approved today for infants before symptoms begin