Tag: gene therapy

Girl’s death in China reveals human cost of unregulated science

July 26, 2026 admin

A six-year-old girl in China died in March 2025 after receiving what researchers said they believed was the world’s first base-editing therapy directed at the brain, according to an investigation by Science and Retraction Watch. The investigation has raised important questions about the oversight of an experimental personalised gene-editing trial and the way the researchers…

Science

GST Council Exempts Gene Therapy, Cuts Tax Rate For Rice Kernels

December 21, 2024 admin

Ms Sitharaman was addressing the media after the 55th GST Council meeting. Jaisalmer (Rajasthan): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced that the Goods and Services Tax Council has approved the reduction of GST on rice kernels to 5 per cent, exempted life-saving gene therapy from tax, and extended the GST exemption for parts…

Nation

India getting close to developing gene therapy for sickle cell disease, say officials

June 19, 2024 admin

This microscope photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows crescent-shaped red blood cells from a sickle cell disease patient. | Photo Credit: AP India is getting closer to developing a gene therapy for sickle cell disease, a genetic blood disorder with a high prevalence rate among the Scheduled Tribes, officials of…

Science

Gene therapy offers hope for patients with hearing loss

June 16, 2024 admin

Hearing loss is one of the most prevalent disorders and it is estimated that over one billion people suffer from hearing loss and approximately one-two children in every 1,000 births are born with congenital hearing loss. It is not therefore surprising that screening for newborns is an essential component of newborn screening programmes. Hearing loss…

Science

Pfizer reports patient death in Duchenne gene therapy study

May 8, 2024 admin

Pfizer’s gene therapy trial for Duchenne muscular dystrophy resulted in a young patient’s death. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A young patient died due to cardiac arrest after receiving Pfizer’s experimental gene therapy being tested in a mid-stage trial for a muscle-wasting disorder called Duchenne muscular dystrophy(DMD), the drugmaker told Reuters on May 7. “A…

Science

With CRISPR poised to revolutionise therapy, a pause to consider ethical issues

February 8, 2024 admin

“We will each write a ghost story”, said Lord Byron; and his proposition was acceded to. And so on a cold and rainy supposedly summer night in 1816, four friends inspired by German ghost stories, gathered to write one. Among them, a young Mary Shelley, consumed by the idea of creating a story that would “curdle…

Science