Tag Archives: University of Manchester

Gene therapy could treat rare diseases. But drugmakers have little incentive, leaving families helpless

Robin Alderman faces a painful truth: Gene therapy can cure her son Camden’s rare, inherited immune deficiency. But this is not available to him. London-based Orchard Therapeutics stopped investing in an experimental treatment for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome in 2022. And there are no gene therapy studies for him to participate in. “We feel like we’ve been… Read More »

The best places to go fossil hunting in Britain

The news that an 11-year-old girl named Ruby Reynolds has found an important fossil proves that anyone willing to get out there and look can make historic discoveries. The fossilized bone found on the Somerset coast in 2020 was recently identified by palaeontologist Dean Lomax of the University of Manchester as coming from a species… Read More »