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Estuary Launches With $103 Million to Bring Gene Therapy to Polycystic Kidney Disease
Estuary Biotherapeutics launched with $103 million to develop one-time, kidney-directed AAV gene therapies for ADPKD, the most common inherited kidney disease. Here is how restoring polycystin proteins could stop, or even reverse, kidney cysts.
2 days ago4 min read
Should Gene Therapy Be Used for Common Diseases? Two Cardiologists Propose Five Questions
One-time genetic treatments are moving from rare diseases to common ones like high cholesterol. In JAMA Internal Medicine, two University of Michigan cardiologists explain why permanence, rare side effects and cost call for a new framework.
2 days ago4 min read
Optogenetic Gene Therapy Gives Some Blind Patients Back a Sense of Light
In the NEJM-published PIONEER trial, an algae-derived light-sensing gene plus amber-light goggles improved light sensitivity in 6 of 10 people with late-stage retinitis pigmentosa, and 4 of 8 got better at finding objects. Here is how optogenetics works.
Oct 115 min read
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Light-Induced Gene Therapy Using Nanoparticles Targets and Destroys Cancer Cells' Mitochondria
A groundbreaking new approach in cancer treatment has emerged, utilizing light to disable the mitochondria, the energy-producing organelles inside cancer cells. Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a targeted gene therapy using viral vectors, specifically engineered adeno-associated viruses (AAVs), that deliver genes designed to disrupt mitochondrial function directly to cancer cells. This therapy uses light to activate these genes, leading to the collapse of t
Feb 9, 2025
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