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 changes genetic material or gene expression in a patient's cells to treat disease. The term covers several strategies, including adding a functional gene, silencing a harmful gene, editing DNA or modifying cells outside the.
Viral vectors use modified viruses as delivery vehicles for genetic material. Viruses evolved efficient ways to enter cells, and gene-therapy develop…
The new gene therapy will have to go through many more stages before it is officially tested in humans.
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…
Blindness can be cured by using gene therapy to reprogram cells in the retina to make these cells possible.
New trials of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease have shown encouraging results, giving hope to millions of people with this paralysis syndrome wor…
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According to a reporter in New Delhi, India on April 4 launched the first indigenous CAR-T cell therapy to treat cancer.
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.
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…
Stanford University neuroscientists have created a gene capable of strengthening memory and the ability of animals to learn while undergoing stress.
A group of French researchers succeeded in giving light to dogs suffering from congenital blindness of Leber, a genetic disease that causes retinal degeneration.
Technology that will help protect children often reacts negatively to antiviral therapy not infected by HIV-infected mothers.
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 humans.
In a recent study, scientists at Oregon State University (OSU) studied proteins called otoferlin located in the inner ear cochlea.
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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…
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…
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…
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.
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).
This research helps open up the hope of treating this autoimmune disease, which affects millions of children and young people around the world.
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…
The above gene variant is related to cell development, opening new prospects for cancer treatment.
The Singapore Research Agency on October 28 said the scientists created a new breakthrough when discovering stem cell therapy in the treatment and regeneration of lung t…
The group of scientists from Hanoi Medical University is receiving and deploying the application of immune cell therapy in the treatment of cancer from Japanese experts.
Desperate before incurable diseases, many patients went to hospitals in China to treat them
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.