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Tomato Genes Produce Promising Results Against Brain Tumours
March 29, 2010 Tomato genes could be used as a future treatment in gene therapy, according to new ... > full story -
Sea Creatures' Sex Protein Provides New Insight Into Diabetes
March 22, 2010 A genetic accident in the sea more than 500 million years ago has provided new insight into diabetes. New research findings could help to explain a rare form of the disease that causes sufferers to ... > full story -
Effects of Lifestyle and Exposures Are Mirrored in Blood Gene Expression
March 11, 2010 A study by Norwegian and French researchers hopes to provide new understanding of how blood cells adjust gene expression in response to various clinical, biochemical and pathological conditions. The ... > full story -
Second Dose of Gene Therapy for Inherited Blindness Proves Safe in Animal Studies
March 3, 2010 A research team that conducted the gene therapy trial for an inherited blindness reports that a study in animals has shown that a second injection of genes into the opposite, previously untreated eye ... > full story -
Researchers Develop New Tool for Gene Delivery
January 27, 2010 Researchers have developed a new tool to deliver DNA in gene therapy. DNA delivered to the retina with a peptide called PEG-POD was expressed 215 times more efficiently than delivery of DNA alone. ... > full story -
Researchers Continue 'Extraordinary Measures' to Tackle Pompe Disease
January 26, 2010 Researchers are hopeful that gene therapy will help patients in the late stages of Pompe disease breathe on their own. Efforts to find a treatment for Pompe disease are depicted in the film ... > full story -
Mice and Humans With Same Anxiety-Related Gene Abnormality Behave Similarly
January 14, 2010 Studying animals in behavioral experiments has been a cornerstone of psychological research, but whether the observations are relevant for human behavior has been unclear. Researchers have now ... > full story -
EGFR Gene Signature Predicts Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Prognosis
January 12, 2010 Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a validated therapeutic target for non-small cell lung cancer. Researchers have now discovered a 93-gene signature that is associated with the presence of ... > full story -
I-1c Gene Therapy: Not Such a Good Idea in Heart Failure?
January 11, 2010 Several lines of evidence have led to the suggestion that gene therapy to express a constitutively active form of the protein I-1 (I-1c) might provide a new approach to treating heart failure. ... > full story -
Sleeping Beauty Hooks Up With Herpes to Fight Brain Disease
January 8, 2010 Neuroscientists have forged an unlikely molecular union as part of their fight against diseases of the brain and nervous system, bringing together the herpes virus and a molecule known as Sleeping ... > full story
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