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on June 17, 2010
A triple punch gene therapy has cleared its first safety test in humans as it gives human stem cells three ways to defy HIV. Four AIDS patients were injected with these cells and they tolerated the tr...
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Diagnostics, Methodologies and Instrumentation
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on April 7, 2010
In a research report published in the April 2010 print issue of The FASEB Journal, scientists describe how they were able to reverse a type of blindness in mice using a form of gene therapy that does ...
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on November 25, 2009
In the November 24 online issue of the journal Molecular Therapy, scientists report a new treatment for pachyonychia congenita, an ultra-rare genetic skin condition due to mutations in the keratin gen...
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on October 26, 2009
Usign a single shot of gene therapy, scientists were able to improve the vision in five children and seven adults with Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA), an inherited retinal degenerative disease cha...
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on August 20, 2009
Based on studies using rat models, scientists have found out that the anti-aging gene called klotho has positive effects on hypertension and renal damage. These results indicate that declining klotho ...
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on January 27, 2009
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 852788A study published in the journal Human Gene Therapy reports of the first clinical evidence that gene therapy reduces symptoms in patients with rheumatoid ar...
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on September 16, 2008
Scientists from the University of Michigan will begin a phase 1 clinical trial for the treatment of cancer-related painusing gene therapy: a novel gene transfer vector injected into the skin to delive...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
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on May 15, 2008
In this month's issue of Plastic and Reconstructive surgery, doctors report of using skin flaps to deliver anti-cancer proteins on rat tumors, resulting in a 79 percent reduction in tumor volume.
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on April 17, 2008
Using gene therapy, researchers have demonstrated in rats that increasing the levels of dopamine D2 receptors in the brain can reduce use of cocaine by 75 percent.
"By increasing dopamine D2 rec...
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on February 18, 2008
Researchers have identified the cells responsible for neurofibromatosis type1, a genetic disease characterized by changes in skin coloring (pigmentation) and the growth of tumors along nerves in the s...
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