Cleveland has strong ties to gene therapy

Story excerpt provided by Crain’s Cleveland Business.

Written by Chuck Soder.

A new gene has been imbedded into Cleveland, Ohio’s biomedical DNA.

A few local companies are developing drugs that use viruses to insert new genes into people’s cells — a technique that has the potential to reverse a long list of fatal diseases.

Among them is Abeona Therapeutics — Cleveland’s newest public company.

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Originally published June 28, 2015.