Vertex

Mar 26, 2020

FDA permits COVID-19 treatments with blood from survivors The FDA revealed the convalescent plasma use that is derived from the donated blood of people that have recovered from COVID-19 and that might have beneficial antibodies. It is being used as an investigational treatment for patients with severe cases of t...

Feb 26, 2019

 Vertex, CRISPR Therapeutics treated a patient using CRISPR In the very first, a patient diagnosed with Beta thalassemia was treated using CRISPR gene editing tool by Vertex and CRISPR Therapeutics.  CTX001 used to treat the disease, was extracted from hematopoietic stem cells from patients, engineered ex...