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20, roughly two weeks after a verdict is expected on a rival geneediting treatment from Vertex and CRISPR Therapeutics. The regulator will issue a decision on lovo-cel by Dec.
The decision stands in contrast to the agency’s plans for a would-be rival geneediting treatment from Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics that is also under a regulatory review.
Casgevy, the commercial product formerly known as exa-cel, is administered by taking stem cells out of a patient’s bone marrow and editing a gene in the cells in a laboratory, with the modified cells then infused back into the patient after conditioning treatment to prepare the bone marrow.
Cutting edge’ is, for once, a truly apt description when it comes to geneediting – both because the field is pushing medicine into areas we might never have dreamed possible, and because these technologies involve literally cutting DNA at a specific point in the genome. Zinc fingers.
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