Morning Overview on MSN

A gene therapy injected straight into brain tumors just began dosing its first patients — a virus engineered to kill glioblastoma cells and spare the rest

Somewhere in an operating room this spring, a neurosurgeon did something that has never been done before: while removing a ...
Morning Overview on MSN

A new gene-editing treatment just drove back advanced stomach and colon cancers in an early trial — by reprogramming patients’ own immune cells to hunt the tumors

Twelve people whose stomach or colon cancers had defeated every available treatment were infused with their own immune cells, ...
Nature

Did a boy’s life-saving gene therapy cause his brain tumour?

Genetic sleuthing uncovers a rare case of cancer caused by a virus administered as part of a child’s treatment for a genetic ...
FierceBiotech

Arbor sails into rocky gene editing waters with $74M for rare liver disease therapy

As other gene editing programs fold or get sold, Arbor Biotechnologies has secured $73.9 million to advance its lead liver-targeting gene therapy into human trials. The series C was led by Arch ...
Medscape

Gene Therapy Injections for Knee OA: Where Are We At?

The idea behind intra-articular gene therapy for treating osteoarthritis (OA) is to deliver the gene-altering vector or cells directly to the precise site of the disease with a single injection — so ...
The Scientist

Fetal Gene Therapy Makes Strides Toward the Clinic

A planned first-in-human trial aims to treat GM1 gangliosidosis in utero, possibly laying the foundation for prenatal gene ...