The future is now: Gene therapy lands in the United States
The United States Food and Drug Authority (FDA) has just given the green light to America’s first ever gene therapy treatment. It’s called Kymriah and it’s a genetically-modified autologous T-cell immunotherapy (CAR-T cell therapy). For the layman: individually customised, cancer-killing white blood cells. This is why it’s a big deal, and what the future could read more...