Gene Therapy News
July 26, 2024
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July 24, 2024 Researchers have made a significant breakthrough in developing a new gene therapy approach that restores full-length dystrophin protein, which could lead to new treatments for people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy ...
July 17, 2024 A new gene therapy treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) shows promise of not only arresting the decline of the muscles of those affected by this inherited genetic disease, but perhaps, in the future, repairing those muscles. The research ...
July 12, 2024 Researchers have used gene editing to restore hearing in adult mice with a type of inherited hearing loss. They showed that shutting down a damaged copy of a gene called a microRNA (miRNA) enabled the animals to regain hearing. The approach may ...
July 10, 2024 Researchers restored hearing in preclinical mouse models with a specific form of inherited deafness called DFNA50 caused by mutations in microRNA, by using a novel in vivo CRISPR genome editing ...
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June 17, 2024 Researchers have designed a new genetic therapy that could alleviate debilitating giant moles in a rare skin ...
June 13, 2024 A viral gene therapy has reversed some brain abnormalities in infant mice with FOXG1 syndrome, a significant step toward one day treating children with this severe neurodevelopmental ...
June 10, 2024 Scientists have improved a gene-editing technology that is now capable of inserting or substituting entire genes in the genome in human cells ...
May 30, 2024 Researchers have developed a novel version of a key CRISPR gene-editing protein that shows efficient editing activity and is small enough to be packaged within a non-pathogenic virus that can deliver ...
May 29, 2024 Bioengineers report that a foaming liquid worked better than a standard liquid formulation at transferring gene therapy components to cells in laboratory ...
Apr. 30, 2024 In an effort to improve delivery of costly medical treatments, a team of researchers in electrical engineering has developed a stimulating method ...
Apr. 24, 2024 In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated the effectiveness of a potential new therapy for Timothy syndrome, an often life-threatening ...
Apr. 22, 2024 Clarifying the cause of a skin disease led to the discovery of a new disease-causing gene, a new category of diseases, and new perspectives for both counseling and therapy. The discovery is the first ...
Apr. 16, 2024 A recent breakthrough study has shown potential to improve therapeutic outcomes for patients suffering from lung ...
Apr. 10, 2024 New research sheds light on the significance of the glucocorticoid receptor in drug-resistant prostate cancer, showing that the development of drug resistance could be prevented by limiting the ...
Earlier Headlines
Apr. 4, 2024 Researchers have succeeded in correcting a gene defect that causes a hereditary liver disease and its adverse effects on ...
Mar. 21, 2024 Researchers have discovered that a specific mutation in the cancer cells of an aggressive type of blood cancer can prevent novel immunotherapies such as CAR T-cell therapy from working. Their study ...
Mar. 6, 2024 A specific gene may play a key role in new treatments that prevent muscle in the body from breaking down in serious muscle diseases, muscular ...
Mar. 5, 2024 Researchers who work with tiny drug carriers known as lipid nanoparticles have developed a new type of material capable of reaching the lungs and the eyes, an important step toward genetic therapy ...
Mar. 4, 2024 In a discovery that opens the door to a less invasive way of treating some serious disorders before birth, UC San Francisco scientists have found that delivering medicine through amniotic fluid is as ...
Feb. 23, 2024 A new study identified a set of 140 genes that may help predict enhanced disease-free survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with a combination of immunotherapy and ...
Feb. 2, 2024 A group of patients with a hereditary disorder have had their lives transformed by a single treatment of a breakthrough gene-editing therapy, according to the lead ...
Jan. 17, 2024 Axi-cel CAR T targets the CD19 molecule on large B-cell lymphoma cells. The ZUMA-7 trial demonstrated that axi-cel reduced the risk of disease progression, the need for new therapy, or death by 60% ...
Jan. 2, 2024 Just like a doctor adjusts the dose of a medication to the patient's needs, the expression of therapeutic genes, those modified in a person to treat or cure a disease via gene therapy, also ...
Dec. 13, 2023 A previously mysterious small RNA molecule in mice is found to play a crucial role in gene expression, and may be the first identified member of a new class of regulatory ...
Dec. 7, 2023 Researchers have laid the foundation for the development of a gene therapy for the genetic heart disease arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM). Their approach, based on replacement of the PKP2 gene, ...
Nov. 22, 2023 Leukemia is the most common type of cancer in children. Treatment involves intensive chemotherapy, which has severe side effects due to its non-specific mode of action. A team has now discovered a ...
Nov. 16, 2023 Researchers have discovered that 'cell competition' following gene therapy results in the accumulation of stem cells with genetic mutations which make them grow faster. Some of these ...
Nov. 1, 2023 Many hidden genetic variations can be detected with Chameleolyser, a new method. The information is already yielding new patient diagnoses and may also lead to the discovery of as yet unknown disease ...
Oct. 31, 2023 Individuals living with severe sickle cell disease (SCD) are highly interested in new, potentially curative gene therapy treatments and are willing to accept associated risks for a chance at a cure, ...
Oct. 24, 2023 One problem in gene therapy is that not all genes transfer equally well into the target cells. Researchers have now developed a flexible method to transfer large genes efficiently and without ...
Aug. 30, 2023 A clinical trial has tested a potentially curative stem cell gene therapy for sickle cell disease. The results were ...
Aug. 11, 2023 Researchers have developed a new form of gene therapy that can stop cell division in fusion-driven ...
Aug. 10, 2023 A change in just one letter in the code that makes up a cancer-causing gene can significantly affect how aggressive a tumor is or how well a patient with cancer responds to a particular therapy. A ...
Aug. 10, 2023 Researchers have made a remarkable step forward in finding a potential cure for a type of childhood kidney ...
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- Experimental Gene Therapy Reverses Sickle Cell Disease for Years
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