Eight Diseases CRISPR Technology Could Cure
CRISPR technology offers the promise to cure any human genetic disease with gene editing; which…
13/09/2021 - 10 minutes
Blood disorders
Bluebird Bio Withdrawal Raises Gene Therapy Doubts in Europe
Last month, the US firm bluebird bio abandoned the sale of its gene therapy Zynteglo…
04/05/2021 - 5 minutes
Bluebird Bio Launches First Gene Therapy for Beta Thalassemia in Germany
The US company bluebird bio has launched the first gene therapy for the blood disorder…
14/01/2020 - 3 minutes
Freeline’s Rare Disease Gene Therapies Get €72M Series C Boost
The UK gene therapy biotech Freeline Therapeutics is to receive an investment worth €72M (£61.1M)…
20/12/2019 - 2 minutes
CRISPR Cell Therapy Shows Early Promise for Treating Blood Disorders
CRISPR Therapeutics and its US partner Vertex Pharmaceuticals have released the first clinical results for…
19/11/2019 - 3 minutes
Orchard’s Gene Therapy Shows Potential in Treating Patients with Beta Thalassemia
Patients with the life-threatening blood disorder beta-thalassemia required fewer blood transfusions after receiving a gene…
30/04/2019 - 3 minutes
Gene Therapies for Blood Disorders Marching Through the Clinic
Gene therapy holds great potential as a cure for blood disorders such as hemophilia and…
04/12/2018 - 3 minutes
Berlin Biotech Raises €24M to Progress Septic Shock Candidate to Clinic
Adrenomed closed a €24M Series D round to fund further development of its antibody drug…
27/11/2018 - 3 minutes
Series A Boost for Swedish Biotech’s Sickle Cell Disease Treatment
Modus Therapeutics closed SEK 140M (€13.5M) in Series A financing to complete a Phase II…
16/07/2018 - 3 minutes
Gene Therapy For Beta-Thalassemia Could Eliminate Need for Transfusions
Bluebird bio has obtained results from two clinical studies showing its new gene therapy could eliminate…
20/04/2018 - 2 minutes
This Gene Therapy for Hemophilia Can Reduce Bleeding by 70%
UniQure has published clinical data revealing that its gene therapy for hemophilia B is effective…
19/12/2017 - 3 minutes
Smile! Here are the 12 Biggest Biotech Clinical Successes of 2017
Now that we've got the bad news out of the way, we're here to spread…
18/12/2017 - 9 minutes
