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
  • The 13-year-old firm has yet to win approval of a gene therapy.
    — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
  • It's called gene therapy, like taking the bad part of the gene off and putting the new gene back into the brain.
    — Asher Fogle, Good Housekeeping, 15 June 2015
  • AAVs are not the same kind of virus that was used in the first attempt at a gene therapy decades ago.
    — Kate Sheridan, Newsweek, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The stem cells were then sent to bluebird bio for gene therapy.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2024
  • And to gene therapy experts, the price tag is not a surprise.
    — WIRED, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The company is the first to have a gene therapy cleared in this country.
    — Washington Post, 10 May 2018
  • 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
  • Within the liquid is a gene therapy virus that contains a healthy version of the gene.
    — Debra Goldschmidt and Susan Scutti, CNN, 20 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Nielsen said the study does not apply to a form of gene therapy that differs from what the Chinese researcher did.
    — NBC News, 3 June 2019
  • 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
  • The drug, called Kymriah, is the first gene therapy approved in the U.S. and may be in 30 hospitals nationwide by the end of the year.
    — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 1 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • The groom’s father is a founder of Tocagen, a gene therapy company in San Diego.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2018
  • Penn is raising funds for a series of gene therapy and biotech ventures.
    — Joseph N. Distefano, Philly.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • And the first gene therapy approved in Europe was pulled from the market when almost no one wanted it.
    — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2017
  • There was also good news in medicine this week, including the approval of the U.S.'s first gene therapy for cancer.
    — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The pigs survived for the six-month duration of the study, while they would have been expected to die from heart failure without the gene therapy.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024
  • As science and technology have advanced, so, too, have gene therapies to treat brain conditions.
    — New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2024

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