25 July 2019 - Potential breakthroughs in medical treatment for serious diseases are turning what was once “the stuff of science fiction” into “real life science,” in the words of former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.

New areas of treatment include methods like replacing defective genes with working ones or even editing genes.

But the worry is that these new breakthroughs will also have enormous price tags. One new gene therapy this year became the world’s most expensive drug, with a cost of $2.1 million.

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