Vertex Achieves Gene-Editing Milestone With First Ever CRISPR Therapy Approval

Great Britain is first to approve the groundbreaking CRISPR-based therapy for sickle cell and beta thalassemia. Vertex is yet to reveal its price, however, and wants to play down early expectations of its commercial potential.

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Vertex and CRISPR Therapeutics have achieved a historic milestone with the approval of the first ever CRISPR/Cas9 based treatment, their sickle cell gene therapy and transfusion dependent beta-thalassemia treatment Casgevy.

The conditional approval granted by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) opens up a new era of...

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