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Gene therapy is set to change the face of medicine

28 October 2024
A revolution in healthcare has been quietly happening over the past two decades, with the field of gene therapy evolving in dynamic new ways. Liontrust Asset Management PLC Sustainable Investment fund manager Mike Appleby looks at how gene therapy has moved closer to being a viable way to treat disease, with the cost of sequencing a person’s genome now as low as $200. With estimates that sales of gene therapy products could rise to $10 billion by 2025, and surpass $20 billion by 2027, there could be interesting investment opportunities too.

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