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Casgevy is the first medicine to be licensed that uses the gene-editing tool CRISPR, which won its inventors the Nobel Prize in 2020, Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said.

The drug, branded as Litfulo, has been approved by UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for people aged 12 years and older suffering from severe alopecia areata.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said AstraZeneca’s GLP-1 drug for type 2 diabetes, called exenatide and marketed as Bydureon, was also included in the review.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) authorized GSK’s shot, called Arexvy, for active immunization to prevent lower respiratory tract disease caused by RSV in adults 60 years and older.

Britain’s health regulator on Wednesday approved a COVID-19 booster from Pfizer Inc and partner BioNTech SE targeting the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants and the original coronavirus strain.