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FDA Advisers Back Gene Therapy for Rare form of Blindness

13:22 EDT 13 Oct 2017 | Bioethics.com

(Nature) – Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have paved the way for the agency’s first approval of a gene therapy to treat a disease caused by a genetic mutation. On 12 October, a panel of external … Read More

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