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.
With his cameo in Bads of Bollywood, Emraan Hashmi, who has long shifted away from his signature bold image, got the chance to revive his boyhood charm.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
There were no plans to have Mk1A version. However, compromise was reached between HAL & IAF in 2015 since original plan for getting Mk2 would've been time-consuming affair.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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