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Impaired Gene Helps Nonsmall-Cell Lung Cancer Resist Drug
October 1, 2006 — Lung cancer cells with a defective version of a potential tumor suppressor gene are highly resistant to attack by a platinum-based drug commonly used to treat the disease, researchers at the ... > full story -
Gene Transfer Using Mutant Form Of Good Cholesterol Cuts Vascular Plaque And Inflammation
September 29, 2006 — Transfer of a gene that produces a mutant form of good cholesterol provides significantly better anti-plaque and anti-inflammation benefits than therapy using the "normal" HDL gene, according to a ... > full story -
Jumping Gene Could Provide Non-Viral Alternative For Gene Therapy
September 26, 2006 — A jumping gene first identified in a cabbage-eating moth may one day provide a safer, target-specific alternative to viruses for gene therapy, researchers say. They compared the ability of the four ... > full story -
Gene Therapy Study Takes Aim At Prostate Cancer
September 25, 2006 — Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) are hoping a new gene therapy that takes a gene called RTVP-1 directly into the prostate tumor will prove effective in preventing recurrence of the ... > full story -
Gene Therapy Technique Reverses Type 2 Diabetes In Mice; Study Shows Promise Of Leptin
September 20, 2006 — University of Florida researchers have discovered the appetite-controlling hormone leptin could also combat type 2 diabetes, a disease that has become a growing problem in the United States as more ... > full story -
Mouse Strain With Gene Stutter Will Help Leukemia Research
September 19, 2006 — Cancer researchers have developed a new strain of mice that should help reveal how an unusual change in a certain gene contributes to a particularly deadly form of acute myeloid leukemia. A study of ... > full story -
Mutation Plays Key Role In Hypertension
September 14, 2006 — The identification in rats of a gene mutation in an enzyme that regulates smooth muscle contraction and blood pressure -- the first genetic link to muscle contraction and high blood pressure -- may ... > full story -
Rodent's Bizarre Traits Deepen Mystery Of Genetics, Evolution
September 14, 2006 — A shadowy rodent has potential to shed light on human genetics and the mysteries of evolution. Purdue University research has shown that the vole, a mouselike rodent, is not only the fastest ... > full story -
Gene Therapy Completely Suppresses Ovarian Cancer Growth In Animal Model
September 1, 2006 — University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers have used gene therapy to either completely abolish or significantly inhibit tumor progression in a mouse model of ovarian cancer. The ... > full story -
Researcher Studies Gene Families To Explore Diversity And Evolution
August 28, 2006 — Iowa State University theoretical biologist Stephen Proulx uses tools and computer models to determine how environmental and evolutionary factors structure a genome. One path to diversity in a genome ... > full story
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