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In December, the FDA approved the first two cell-based gene therapies for treating sickle cell disease: Casgevy and Lyfgenia. And, like any emerging medical technology, the initial use of the ...
Both Casgevy and Lyfgenia work by first harvesting the patient's HSCs, then using CRISPR gene editing to modify their DNA in the laboratory. In parallel with this, the person with sickle cell disease's bone marrow is put through a myeloablation procedure to destroy the remaining HSCs.
Casgevy, developed by partners Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, and bluebird bio's Lyfgenia were approved for people aged 12 years and older. Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a painful ...
Casgevy works by editing the DNA in a patient’s stem cells — which are responsible for making the body’s blood cells — so that they no longer produce sickle-shaped cells.
Exagamglogene autotemcel (Casgevy): treatment for sickle cell disease. [11] Gendicine: treatment for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma; Idecabtagene vicleucel (Abecma): treatment for multiple myeloma [12] Lovotibeglogene autotemcel (Lyfgenia): treatment for sickle cell disease. [11] Nadofaragene firadenovec (Adstiladrin): treatment for ...
[173] [174] In December 2023, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first cell-based gene therapies for treating sickle cell disease, Casgevy and Lyfgenia. Casgevy is the first FDA approved gene therapy to use the CRISPR-Cas9 technology and works by modifying a patient's hematopoietic stem cells. [175]
Writing in 2018, in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Sherkow et al. argued for a narrower definition of gene therapy than the FDA's in light of new technology that would consist of any treatment that intentionally and permanently modified a cell's genome, with the definition of genome including episomes outside the nucleus but excluding ...
The Star spoke to Kansas City area experts for information regarding the newest treatments for sickle cell disease.