How to Use gene therapy in a Sentence

gene therapy

noun

• The gene therapies are built on the back of a stem cell transplant.
  — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
• The 13-year-old firm has yet to win approval of a gene therapy.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
• And to gene therapy experts, the price tag is not a surprise.
  — WIRED, 5 Dec. 2022
• The field of gene therapy was set back greatly when a patient died.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2022
• In 2012, gene therapy cured a girl named Emily who had leukemia.
  — AZCentral.com, 26 June 2023
• The agency is working to hire a bunch of top-notch scientists to work on cell and gene therapies.
  — Rachel Cohrs Reprints, STAT, 1 Feb. 2024
• Nielsen said the study does not apply to a form of gene therapy that differs from what the Chinese researcher did.
  — NBC News, 3 June 2019
• The promise of cell and gene therapies has ​long intrigued scientists​, but progress was slow, with many setbacks.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 12 May 2024
• So far, the studies that have backed Libella’s gene therapy are based just in mice.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2019
• The goal is to create an ensemble form of gene therapy.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 17 Feb. 2021
• In the intervening 20 years, the field of gene therapy had begun to make a comeback.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
• The only downside here is that the gene therapy that can heal old wounds isn’t permanent.
  — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 23 Dec. 2022
• The groom’s father is a founder of Tocagen, a gene therapy company in San Diego.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2018
• Sanath Ramesh is now working on a gene therapy through Open Treatments.
  — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 31 Mar. 2021
• Both gene therapies are approved for patients ages 12 years and up.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2023
• One of the children was 11 months old at the time of the treatment, marking her as the youngest child in the world to date to receive gene therapy for genetic deafness.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 10 May 2024
• But there are also patients who cannot wait for gene therapy.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• Last year, two patients in a study of a high-dose gene therapy for a rare muscle disorder died.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 31 Oct. 2021
• Yet gene therapy cannot undo all the effects of sickle cell.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• But gene therapy seems to work wonders against the condition in cats, and Graff’s colleagues plan to adapt a treatment for its analogs in kids.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 July 2021
• To rid muscles of that toxin, gene therapy has to get to every muscle cell.
  — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• The first patient in the trial received the gene therapy in December 2022.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
• Twenty-three years ago, the field of gene therapy was bursting with the promise of breakthrough treatments.
  — Eric B. Kmiec, STAT, 13 July 2022
• One of the patients who saw great success with gene therapy has suffered from open wounds his entire life.
  — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 23 Dec. 2022
• This isn’t the first time researchers have attempted to use gene therapy for hearing loss.
  — WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
• Bluebird Bio expects to submit its gene therapy to the F.D.A. for approval next year.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2022
• More than 40% of the hemoglobin in their red blood cells came in a healthier form that was produced by the gene therapy.
  — Michelle Cortez, Bloomberg.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• In the study, six female cats were treated with the gene therapy at two different doses, while three cats were the controls.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 June 2023
• And those clinical trials of that form of gene therapy are currently underway in the US.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
• In the meantime current gene therapies remain expensive and challenging to scale up because each patient’s batch of cells has to be edited individually.
  — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024