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STAT+: Bone marrow transplant advance could widen use of this less buzzy cure for sickle cell disease

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The news comes as researchers are still processing the Food and Drug Administration’s landmark approval of two cutting-edge sickle cell therapies, one made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics and the other by Bluebird Bio. These drugs have price tags of $2.2 million and $3.1 million, respectively.

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Upcoming sickle cell gene therapies cost effective at $2 million, says ICER

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Released on April 12, the report focuses on bluebird bio’s lovotibeglogene autotemcel and Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics’ exagamglogene autotemcel or exa-cel and their potential use in treating sickle cell disease. If approved, exa-cel would be the first FDA-approved gene therapy based on CRISPR editing.

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Q&A: A decade on, what’s next for CAR-T therapies?

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But access to these treatments continues to remain limited due to high price tags and variable availability across regions. This includes the first potential approval of a CRISPR-based gene therapy called exa-cel , which is developed by CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals. There has been extremely rapid progress.

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Putting complex medicines under the microscope

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Figure 2 : Super-resolution imaging of CRISPR/Cas9 reporter cell lines enables visualisation of cellular uptake of complex medicines. BT-474 cell line was gene-edited to incorporate a green fluorescent protein (GFP) tag into late endosomes/lysosomes (green). Figure 2 ). During her PhD at St.