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New breakthrough in the treatment of sickle cell disease
According to the French newspaper Les Echos (Echoes), the medical community has just recorded the first success in anti-sickle cell gene therapy - a genetic disorder cau…
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The virus helps deaf mice hear sounds
An international team of scientists on February 6 said gene therapy using a benign virus helped deaf ears hear sounds around them.
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Old people complete plain reprogramming cells
US scientists studying the method of cell reprogramming can increase 30% of human life in the future.
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You can apply the creation of babies from a father and a mother
British scientists on November 30 approved the use of IVF to produce babies from one father and two mothers (TPIVF for short).
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Glybera - A medicine for the rich only
Glybera gene therapy helps treat rare diseases and has yielded very positive results.
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Can completely cure deafness in 5 - 10 years
In the near future, using gene therapy, human deafness will be completely cured.
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New gene treatments help restore sight to blind people
US scientists on December 8 have developed a new gene therapy method that successfully restores the sense of light in blind mice.
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Relieve pain with light
Scientists from the Stanford University's Bio-X division have used gene therapy to manipulate mice, so light can be used on the legs of mice to alter the sensitivity of…
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Gene therapy offers hope for Parkinson's patients
New trials of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease have shown encouraging results, giving hope to millions of people with this paralysis syndrome worldwide.
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Alzheimer's can be treated with gene replacement therapy
Alzheimer's disease is treated by eliminating fault genes, researchers predict after discovering 11 key genes that increase the risk.
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Gene therapy interventions can cure congenital deafness
The British Journal of Natural Medicine released Feb. 4, scientists at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in the United States have recovered some of t…
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EC allows the sale of Glybera gene therapy
In a statement released on November 5, Dutch biotech company uniQure said it would start selling the first human gene therapy called Glybera in the European market next…
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Going to cure congenital olfactory loss?
For the first time in a laboratory a gene therapy has successfully restored olfactory ability in mice, opening new hopes for treating congenital olfactory loss or human…
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Good news for sick men 'powerless'
Recent medical researchers have studied the application of gene therapy in the treatment of erectile dysfunction. They also claim that this treatment can also cure some…
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The prospect of treating Parkinson's by gene therapy
British scientists believe that the gene therapy they just developed may open up hope to cure the agonist syndrome - Parkinson's disease, which is affecting 4.1 million…