When results for a new pancreatic cancer pill were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting in May, the audience gave them a rare, 42s standing ovation. It was one of a string of medical advances this year, several built on gene editing and AI, that have mostly stayed in the specialist…
Kampala, Scidev.Net — As Uganda rolls out mandatory nationwide screening of newborns for sickle cell disease this month, a gene therapy celebrated in the United States and Europe remains financially out of reach for most patients in Africa. Ayoola Olajide, president of Ikorodu Sickle Cell Club in Nigeria and a person living with sickle cell…
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CRISPR gene-editing therapy has already shown immense promise in treating and curing diseases, but scientists are now revealing its potential for disease prevention. A recent paper published in Nature details how a team of researchers successfully edited a single gene in mosquitos, rendering them unable to transmit malaria. This groundbreaking development could eventually lead to…
