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Silence Tx uses game to raise thalassaemia awareness

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Thalassaemia is a severe genetic disease that is characterised by significantly reduced production of functional beta-globin, a component of haemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein in the blood. Severely-affected patients need regular blood transfusions to maintain their haemoglobin levels.

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Vyjuvek Gets FDA Nod as First Topical Gene Therapy for Rare Skin Disease

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DEB patients are also at an increased risk of aggressive skin cancer.DEB usually presents at birth and is caused by one or more mutations in the COL7A1 gene, which encodes type VII collagen (COL7), an important protein that helps connect, strengthen and stabilize the outer and middle layers of the skin.

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Sarepta says early filing for DMD gene therapy is back on

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Sarepta’s gene therapy – like rivals from Pfizer and Solid Biosciences – codes for a shortened form of the dystrophin protein that is deficient in patients with the X-linked muscle-wasting disease, which occurs primarily in males.

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Searching for answers in rare epilepsy

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Doctors were able to control the seizures, and Charlie’s daughter started to progress normally again, but a year and a half later she had another serious seizure at night. Shortly after that, she started making jackknife movements. Everything the 100,000 Genomes Project does has to be rubber-stamped by the patients”.

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Searching for answers in rare epilepsy

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Doctors were able to control the seizures, and Charlie’s daughter started to progress normally again, but a year and a half later she had another serious seizure at night. Shortly after that, she started making jackknife movements. Everything the 100,000 Genomes Project does has to be rubber-stamped by the patients”.

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Stoke Therapeutics Announces Presentations Related to the Company’s Work to Advance STK-001, the First Potential New Medicine to Target the Underlying Cause of Dravet Syndrome at the American Epilepsy Society (AES) 2020 Annual Meeting

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Stoke believes that STK-001, a proprietary antisense oligonucleotide (ASO), has the potential to be the first disease-modifying therapy to address the genetic cause of Dravet syndrome. protein expression by leveraging the non-mutant (wild-type) copy of the SCN1A gene to restore physiological Na V 1.1