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The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first gene therapy to treat people with hemophilia B, an inherited bleeding disorder.

The one-time treatment, called Hemgenix, was developed by the Dutch biotech company UniQure and will be marketed by CSL Behring, an Australian pharmaceutical company.

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