Will The Gene Therapy Help Us? The Most Expensive Medicine In The World

[Rolandconil]

The most expensive medicine in the world - 850 thousand dollars for a dose! LUXTURNA.

Spark Therapeutics, which developed Luxturna, originally intended to sell it for 1 million dollars for a single dose. Luxturna is designed to heal a patient from an extremely bad disease - hereditary blindness. The drug cures blindness by gene therapy (ultra-modern and really effective trend in modern medicine, based on making changes in the genetic apparatus of the patient's somatic cells).

Testing proved that Luxturna really restores sight to those who have a rare form of inherited blindness. It is estimated that in the United States about two thousand people are forced to live with this diagnosis.

After one injection of the drug, it acts as a virus on the retina of the eye and replaces the defective gene, after which the process of restoring vision begins. Injections will require two pieces (one per eye), treatment of each eye will cost 425 thousand, which will give the sum of the same 850 thousand.



https://luxturna.com/



Will we have such treatment? and how much will it cost, considering that the demand will be greater?

 

[abcdefg]

Just pure random speculation. Is it even applicable to male pattern baldness? male pattern baldness isnt one or two genes its many many genes some of which arent known. You cant use gene therapy to fix genes no one knows.
Everything happens eventually. Maybe 200 million years from they will come up with something. Is it happening soon for male pattern baldness? Id vote no.
male pattern baldness is going to be cured with hair multiplication or growing organs like hair and implanting them. Any male pattern baldness cure will be very expensive.

 

[jamesbooker1975]

Nah, we we will not see it, not in our lifetime, may be in 40 years, 60, who knows.