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Spark plug: Luxturna green-lighted to treat rare RPE65-associated vision loss
Dec. 20, 2017
By
Marie Powers
Spark Therapeutics Inc. turned the commercial corner with the FDA's nod for Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec-rzyl), which became the first gene therapy approved in the U.S. that targets an inherited disease, caused by mutations in a specific gene.
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