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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).
Gene therapy helps aging the heart
The above gene variant is related to cell development, opening new prospects for cancer treatment.
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 tran…
Testing gene therapy for Parkinson's disease
US researchers at Cornell University in New York have conducted a first trial of gene therapy in 11 Parkinson's patients and have achieved encouragin…
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 / A…
The United States for the first time allowed the application of gene therapy to treat cancer
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This vegetable, commonly sold in Vietnamese markets but little known, is a 'medicine' for cleansing the kidneys and reducing blood fat.
Since the 16th century, the world has discovered the diuretic and detoxifying effects of celery. Therefore, this vegetable is considered...
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Born in 1993, Brooke Greenberg was trapped in the body of a toddler as the years passed.
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A vegetable that is abundant in Vietnam is considered 'medicine for the poor': The world has used it to treat diseases for a long time!
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This plant is a 'golden medicine' that helps control blood sugar and lower blood pressure effectively.
This plant has been shown to have many beneficial uses for people with diabetes who want to control blood sugar.
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Dangerous diseases that require vaccination from a young age
Thanks to vaccines, people can prevent many diseases that cause serious complications such as polio, tetanus, flu, diphtheria, hepatitis, chickenpox...
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The most fatty, nutritious and aromatic fruit in the world: A 'precious medicine', helps prevent cancer extremely effectively
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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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US launches clinical trial of stem cell therapy
Clinical trial of human embryonic stem cells was started at a hospital in Georgia, USA. Biotech company Geron said it was licensed by the US government to use this contr…
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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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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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Nobel Medicine 2012 'paved the way' for incurable diseases
The 2012 Nobel Prize winners for medicine have found single cell cultures and complete tissue cultures, opening a vast prospect to cure incurable diseases for humans, in…
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Self-cell cells in the Nobel Prize for Medicine help treat critical diseases
Research by the Japanese scientist who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the cell's autonomous mechanism opens the door to application in the treatment of critica…
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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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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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3 Americans shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine
The Nobel Prize in medicine has identified the owner - three US national scientists Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak.
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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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'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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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 degeneration.