The biomedical research community should act quickly and decisively to divorce the two before pushing ahead with well-conceived postnatal and fetal somatic gene therapy protocols. That gene ...

might require prenatal or fetal gene therapy to minimize morbidity. Gene therapy is also being considered for the treatment of inflammatory and infectious diseases of the lung. In these cases ...

The potential risks Fetal gene therapy may pose a higher risk than postnatal gene therapy because there are potential adverse effects such as injuries, infections, severe immune reactions or ...

More information: Rebecca L Wilson et al, Placental gene therapy in nonhuman primates: a pilot study of maternal, placental, and fetal response to non-viral, polymeric nanoparticle delivery of ...

The new gene therapies for sickle cell disease—including ... wants to go even further. "The editing therapy is a wonderful achievement, but only a small fraction of the people who could benefit ...

The HCM heart demonstrates fetal gene reprogramming and inhibition of SP1 or EGR1 can alleviate the development of HCM in mice. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the most common inherited heart ...