Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Wishing you a colorful Día de los Muertos. Remembering my grandmother, in particular, a zoology professor who sparked my penchant for all things biological. Her dissertation was on shrimp chromatophores, I believe. The need-to-know this morning UniQure said the Food and Drug Administration accepted the marketing application for its AMT-130 gene therapy to treat Huntington’s disease. The approval decision date is May 1, 2027. The FDA is “tentatively planning” an advisory committee meeting to review the AMT-130 data, the company said. Scant evidence for a next-gen, destination IVF business A fertility treatment framed as a way to rewind the biological clock has spawned an international medical tourism business — with precious little evidence to back it up. An eight-month STAT investigation found clinics and middlemen marketing mitochondrial replacement, or “three-parent IVF,” to older women willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars for a shot at a genetically related child. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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