Zolgensma is the only drug that promises a cure for Spinal Muscular Atrophy, provided it is administered to affected children before the symptoms appear.
FDA-approved Casgevy & Lyfgenia made from patients’ blood stem cells which are modified and given back as single-dose infusion. India ‘in preclinical stage’ of trial of similar therapy.
FDA is scheduled to review gene therapies from two American companies — Vertex Pharmaceuticals & Bluebird Bio Inc. If approved, therapies could mean a breakthrough for curing SCD.
Biosimilars are generic equivalents of biologic drugs, a new class of medicines that include therapeutics based on large molecules, such as monoclonal antibodies & gene therapies.
US study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Therapy administered to mice engrafted with human T cells resulted in suppression of virus & elimination of HIV-1.
Developed by professor Jayandharan Giridhara Rao and Shubham Maurya of IIT Kanpur, the licensed technology replaces faulty gene with functional version to treat genetic eye diseases.
Hemgenix, manufactured by Australia's CSL Behring, is a one-time therapy, given through a single dose of IV infusion & was approved by US Food and Drug Administration this week.
Piyush was about celebration—of life, of people, of stories. He believed that what we create can shape popular culture, can make people feel proud of who they are.
Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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