Last month, Europe’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use approved a gene therapy for a rare genetic disease, the first time a Western regulatory agency has okayed such a treatment, though gene therapies have been approved in China.
The first regulatory approval of a gene therapy treatment could spark broader patient access to the technology.
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