How to Use gene therapy in a Sentence

gene therapy

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  • The gene therapies are built on the back of a stem cell transplant.
    — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
  • And the other approach to gene editing or gene therapy editing is essentially gene scissors.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Pfizer has been investing in cancer drugs and gene therapies in the face of competition for its blockbuster pain drug Lyrica.
    — Washington Post, 17 June 2019
  • In the wake of that success, several other gene therapies are moving through clinical trials, and Nathan is joining one.
    — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Its gene therapy center is one of a handful in the U.S. that produces a virus that brings missing genes to a patient’s cells during clinical trials.
    — Orla McCaffrey, Dallas News, 18 June 2019
  • Eli Lilly , Merck and Roche this year have also bought startups that specialize in gene therapies and oncology drugs.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • So far, the studies that have backed Libella’s gene therapy are based just in mice.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The goal is to create an ensemble form of gene therapy.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 17 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • Sanath Ramesh is now working on a gene therapy through Open Treatments.
    — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Both gene therapies are approved for patients ages 12 years and up.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2023
  • One of the children was 11 months old at the time of the treatment, marking her as the youngest child in the world to date to receive gene therapy for genetic deafness.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 10 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • More than 40% of the hemoglobin in their red blood cells came in a healthier form that was produced by the gene therapy.
    — Michelle Cortez, Bloomberg.com, 7 Dec. 2019

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