In 2018, drugs for rare conditions such as beta-thalassemia and forms of amyloidosis made it onto the approval mainstage in addition to drugs for more common diseases such as cancer. The gene-editing technology CRISPR slowly made strides into the therapeutic realm, while drugs for Alzheimer’s disease continued to falter, leaving a wide gap that is still in need of filling.
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Chakradhar, S. Treatments that made headlines in 2018. Nat Med 24, 1785–1787 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-018-0292-3
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