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Gene For Neat Repair Of DNA Discovered
January 29, 2002 — Researchers from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam have demonstrated that a gene helps in the neat repair of DNA. Without this gene the body would repair damaged DNA in a careless manner more ... > full story -
New Gene Therapy Shows Promise For Hemophiliacs
January 22, 2002 — University of Minnesota researchers have demonstrated that it may be possible to treat hemophilia A through the use of human blood outgrowth endothelial cells, or BOECs, as a vehicle for gene ... > full story -
Blood Stem Cells Carry Targeted Genes
January 9, 2002 — Researchers at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins have genetically altered human blood stem cells to selectively activate genes in developing immune cells. Results of the ... > full story -
New Gene Therapy Method Corrects Genetic Defects In Human Cystic Fibrosis Lung Models
December 24, 2001 — Working with model cell systems that mimic cystic fibrosis (CF) affected human airways, University of Iowa researchers and their colleagues have used a new gene therapy technique to correct the most ... > full story -
Scientists Use Gene Therapy To Correct Sickle Cell Disease In Mice
December 14, 2001 — For the first time scientists have corrected sickle cell disease in mice using gene therapy, according to a study supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National ... > full story -
Adelaide Scientists Make HIV A Safe Aid In Gene Therapy
November 20, 2001 — Senior researcher Dr Don Anson and PhD student Maria Fuller from the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide have published a paper in Human Gene Therapy in which they have shown that ... > full story -
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Gene Silencing Produces Disease Resistance In Plants
November 5, 2001 — For the first time, a technique known as "gene silencing" has produced resistance to a bacterial disease in crop plants, report researchers at the University of California, Davis. ... > full story -
Mayo Clinic Study Of Defective Gene That Causes Huntington's Sheds New Light On Disease
October 17, 2001 — Mayo Clinic researchers have found that the intact mutant protein apparently kills brain cells in patients with Huntington’s Disease by grabbing onto its normal counterpart and other key ... > full story -
Two Genes Are Better Than One: Combination Approach Selectively Kills Pancreatic Cancer Cells
October 3, 2001 — A two-fisted, gene-based therapy might someday offer patients with pancreatic cancer another treatment option for their disease, which is a particularly aggressive cancer and a veritable death ... > full story -
Cancers Appear In Mice Treated With Adeno-Associated Virus, A Gene Therapy Vector
September 5, 2001 — Studying one type of gene therapy in mice, researchers made an unexpected and unsettling discovery: Six animals eventually developed cancer. The results of the NIH-funded study are described in two ... > full story
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