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New gene therapy discovered to reduce fat and gain muscle
The new gene therapy will have to go through many more stages before it is officially tested in humans.
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Gene Therapy
Explore how gene therapies aim to treat disease by adding, replacing or editing genetic material, including delivery methods and clinical research.
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Gene therapy: a new method of improving the ability to remember and learn.
Stanford University neuroscientists have created a gene capable of strengthening memory and the ability of animals to learn while undergoing stress.
Gene therapy helps bring light to dogs who are born blind
A group of French researchers succeeded in giving light to dogs suffering from congenital blindness of Leber, a genetic disease that causes retinal d…
Using HIV gene therapy technology: New hope of Russian scientists
Technology that will help protect children often reacts negatively to antiviral therapy not infected by HIV-infected mothers.
Successful restoration of vision in mice by gene therapy
This is the first time that successful researchers have replaced damaged retinal cells, giving hope that someday in the near future can be applied to…
Gene therapy uses hematopoietic stem cells in the treatment of HIV / AIDS
Researchers at the University of California (UCLA) in the US have published a study that said a gene therapy using stem cells of hematopoietic patien…
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India launches first indigenous CAR-T cell therapy to treat cancer
According to a reporter in New Delhi, India on April 4 launched the first indigenous CAR-T cell therapy to treat cancer.
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Stem cell therapy combined with sound waves can help broken bones grow back
Stem cells are cells with superpowers that can turn into any other cell in the body. This is the same type of cell that some animals use to regrow their lost limbs.
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Be careful about stem cell therapy
A single part may contain more than one type of adult stem cell - exploring complicating the prospect of using stem cells to replace damaged tissue to cure diseases, acc…
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Scientists found a way to cure blindness with gene therapy
Blindness can be cured by using gene therapy to reprogram cells in the retina to make these cells possible.
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Breakthrough in the treatment of hearing loss by gene therapy
In a recent study, scientists at Oregon State University (OSU) studied proteins called otoferlin located in the inner ear cochlea.
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The United States for the first time allowed the application of gene therapy to treat cancer
Kymriah therapy (old name CTL019) is also known as
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Early disease can be treated with gene therapy
Scientists at Methodist Reseach Research Institute in Houston (USA) claim to have reversed many signs of aging in cells from children with premature aging (progeria).
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Gene Omega 3 gene therapy helps treat type 1 diabetes
This research helps open up the hope of treating this autoimmune disease, which affects millions of children and young people around the world.
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Biological heart rhythm by gene therapy
The implantation of a pacemaker into the body is a complicated, expensive and risky surgery, dangerous complication.
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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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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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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…
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Gene therapy can help patients with anemia
US and French scientists on September 15 said that patients with rare genes of anemia may have hoped to escape the disease without needing blood transfusion thanks to ge…
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Gene therapy - New weapon to treat HIV / AIDS
Research results of scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, showed that gene therapy can become a new weapon in the treatment of HIV / AIDS century disease.
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Gene therapy helps aging the heart
The above gene variant is related to cell development, opening new prospects for cancer treatment.
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Successful treatment of gene therapy for the blind
US researchers said a year ago, three blind people in their 20s volunteered to treat with gene therapy. Now, their eyesight has improved significantly, even a sick perso…
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'Gene therapy' Near or far?
The human body has 20,488 genes. Each cell contains all of these genes, but only certain genes work according to certain functions called active genes and functional gen…
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Cure cancer with gene therapy
A group of American researchers successfully treated melanoma skin cancer by modifying the genes of white blood cells to attack the cancer.
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An additional gene therapy for blood cancer is licensed in the United States
The US Drug Administration approved a second gene therapy to treat blood cancer. This is considered a new step in the study of treatment of dangerous diseases.