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Ancient viruses may hold key to gene therapy treatments

Drug Discovery World

Scientists have unlocked key insights into virus evolution, revealing new information that could help develop treatments for a wide variety of genetic diseases. . Many distinct types of parvoviruses infect mammals – including humans – without causing disease. Parvovirus gene therapy is a cutting-edge biomedical technology.

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10 Key Learnings from Successful Cellular and Gene Therapy Trials for Rare Diseases

XTalks

Rare diseases can often be progressive, chronic and fatal. Approximately 72 percent of rare diseases are genetic, and around 70 percent of rare genetic diseases emerge in childhood. Sadly, one-third of children with rare diseases die before their first birthday. How Can Study Protocols Be More Effective?

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Research reveals therapeutic potential of mRNA in rare diseases

Drug Discovery World

Successful industry/academia collaboration Fewer than 5% of rare diseases have approved therapies and most of these treatments use gene therapy. Until recently, gene therapy employed modified viruses to bring the therapeutic gene to the disease cells, but these viral systems can cause severe adverse effects.

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Adzynma Wins FDA Approval as First Treatment for Ultra-Rare Blood Clotting Disorder cTTP

XTalks

Treatments for cTTP includes prophylactic plasma-based therapy for individuals with chronic disease to reduce the risk of clotting/bleeding by restoring the low amounts or absence of the ADAMTS13 enzyme. For prophylactic ERT, Adyznma is given to help reduce the risk of disease symptoms.

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Lysogene Announces a Change in the Organization of KGA, Minority Shareholder of Lysogene

The Pharma Data

PARIS–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Regulatory News: Lysogene (Paris:LYS) (FR0013233475 – LYS), a phase 3 gene therapy platform Company targeting central nervous system (CNS) diseases, announces a change in the governance and control of KGA, a company co-owned by Karen Aiach and which currently owns approximately 6% of Lysogene’s capital.

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Sensorion Hosting Key Opinion Leader Call with Dr. John Greinwald on Genetic Hearing Loss in Children on December 2, 2020

The Pharma Data

He has pioneered the establishment of diagnostic evaluation algorithms for children with sensorineural hearing loss and developed a next generation sequencing platform to determine the genetic causes of hearing loss in children. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements concerning Sensorion and its business.

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Lysogene Reports Positive Biomarker Data With LYS-SAF302

The Pharma Data

PARIS–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Regulatory News: Lysogene (FR0013233475 – LYS) (Paris:LYS), a phase 3 gene therapy platform company targeting central nervous system (CNS) diseases, today reports positive biomarker data from the ongoing AAVance clinical trial with LYS-SAF302 for the treatment of MPS IIIA (NCT03612869).