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Gene Therapy Technique Slows Brain Disease ALD Featured In Movie 'Lorenzo's Oil'
A strategy that combines
gene therapy with blood stem
cell therapy may be a useful
tool for treating a fatal
brain disease, French
... > full story
Gene Therapy Repairs Injured Human Donor Lungs For The First Time
For the first time,
scientists have successfully
used gene therapy to repair
injured human donor lungs,
making them potentially
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Key To How 'Triggering Event' In Cancer Occurs: Researchers Link Hormone To Creation Of Gene Fusion In Prostate Cancer
Researchers have discovered
what leads to two genes
fusing together, a
phenomenon that has been
shown to cause prostate
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One Shot Of Gene Therapy, And Children With Congenital Blindness Can Now See
A study using gene therapy
safely improved vision in
five children and seven
adults with Leber's
congenital amaurosis. The
... > full story
- Gene Therapy Technique Slows Brain Disease ALD Featured In Movie 'Lorenzo's Oil'
- Gene Therapy Repairs Injured Human Donor Lungs For The First Time
- Key To How 'Triggering Event' In Cancer Occurs: Researchers Link Hormone To Creation Of Gene Fusion In Prostate Cancer
- One Shot Of Gene Therapy, And Children With Congenital Blindness Can Now See
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Safe To Treat HER2-positive Breast Cancer With Trastuzumab And Adjuvant Radiation, Study Finds
November 3, 2009 — Standard adjuvant treatment for HER2-positive breast cancer patients, following primary surgery for their cancer, is trastuzumab (herceptin) -- typically used in combination with chemotherapy. ... > full story -
'Slimming Gene' Discovered That Regulates Body Fat
November 2, 2009 — Scientists have discovered a previously unknown fruit fly gene that controls the metabolism of fat. Larvae in which this gene is defective lose their entire fat reserves. Mammals carry a group of ... > full story -
Gene Therapy Stalls Development Of Huntington's Disease In Mice
October 30, 2009 — Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have shown that a highly specific intrabody (an antibody fragment that works against a target inside a cell) is capable of stalling the ... > full story -
Color Differences Within And Between Species Have Common Genetic Origin
October 25, 2009 — Spend a little time people-watching at the beach and you're bound to notice differences in the amount, thickness and color of people's body hair. Then head to the zoo and compare people to chimps, ... > full story -
Muscular Dystrophy: Exon Skipping Shows Dramatic Effects In Preventing, Treating Muscle-wasting Disease In Mice
October 21, 2009 — Researchers have released details of a breakthrough which holds promise of a new therapeutic approach for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), an incurable muscle-wasting disease. The ... > full story -
No Test Needed For Hand-foot Genital Syndrome In Women Without HOXA13 Gene Mutation, Study Finds
October 19, 2009 — Researchers have found that women without mutations of the HOXA13 gene do not need to be subjected to X-rays and other tests for a rare condition called hand-foot genital ... > full story -
Gene Linked With Human Kidney Aging
October 17, 2009 — A gene has been associated with human kidney aging, according to researchers. Their approach, which combines sequential transcriptional profiling and eQTL mapping, can be applied to any phenotype of ... > full story -
Gene Mingling Increases Sudden Death Risk
October 15, 2009 — Medical researchers report that variations in the gene NOS1AP increase the risk of cardiac symptoms and sudden death in patients who have an inherited cardiac disease called congenital long-QT ... > full story -
New Cancer Gene Discovered
October 14, 2009 — A new cancer gene has been discovered by researchers in Sweden. The gene causes an insidious form of glandular cancer usually in the head and neck and in women also in the breast. The discovery could ... > full story -
New Old Drug Fights Colon Cancer
October 14, 2009 — Scientists have shown that a common antibiotic can suppress the growth of colon cancer polyps in ... > full story
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