News tagged with gene therapy
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Adenoviral vector specifically targeted to EphA2 receptor in pancreatic cancer cells
Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with poor prognosis. This warrants the development of novel therapies including gene therapy. However, clinical studies have demonstrated poor efficacy of adenoviral gene therapy ...
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Gene therapy technique thwarts cancer by cutting off tumor blood supply
University of Florida researchers have come up with a new gene therapy method to disrupt cancer growth by using a synthetic protein to induce blood clotting that cuts off a tumor's blood and nutrient supply.
Jun 12, 2009 |
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Researchers engineer metabolic pathway in mice to prevent diet-induced obesity
In recent years, obesity has taken on epidemic proportions in developed nations, contributing significantly to major medical problems, early death and rising health care costs. According to Centers for Disease Control and ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Combined stem cell-gene therapy approach cures human genetic disease in vitro
A study led by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has catapulted the field of regenerative medicine significantly forward, proving in principle that a human genetic disease can be cured ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 31, 2009 |
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UF makes gene therapy advance in severe genetic disorder
A dog born with a deadly disease that prevents the body from using stored sugar has survived 20 months and is still healthy after receiving gene therapy at the University of Florida — putting scientists a step closer to finding ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 28, 2009 |
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Nervous system may be culprit in deadly muscle disease
Brain may win out over brawn as the primary cause of breathing problems in children with a severe form of muscular dystrophy known as Pompe disease.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 25, 2009 |
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Moving gene therapy forward with mobile DNA
Gene therapy is the introduction of genetic material into a patient's cells resulting in a cure or a therapeutic effect. In recent years, it has been shown that gene therapy is a promising technology to treat or even cure ...
May 03, 2009 |
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Simulated gene therapy
In a recent issue of The Journal of Chemical Physics, published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP), a group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Los Alamos National Laboratory describe the fi ...
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Predicting patient response to gleevec in gastrointestinal stromal tumors
Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center uncovered a genetic pattern that may help predict how gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) patients respond to the targeted therapy imatinib mesylate (Gleevec). Moreover, their findings ...
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Gene therapy for muscular dystrophy shows promise beyond safety
Researchers have cleared a safety hurdle in efforts to develop a gene therapy for a form of muscular dystrophy that disables patients by gradually weakening muscles near the hips and shoulders.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Gene therapy appears safe to regenerate gum tissue
Scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a method of gene delivery that appears safe for regenerating tooth-supporting gum tissue -- a discovery that assuages one of the biggest safety concerns surrounding ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Nanoparticles Deliver Gene Therapy, Killing Tumors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Given that cancer is ultimately a genetic disease, it has long been the hope of researchers to use gene therapy to attack tumors where they might be most susceptible. Those prospects have taken a significant ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Experimental Parkinson's therapy may have robust weight-loss effect
A growth factor used in clinical experiments to rescue dying brain cells in Parkinson patients may cause unwanted weight loss if delivered to specific areas of the brain, according to University of Florida researchers in ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Stem cells crucial to diabetes cure in mice
More than five years ago, Dr. Lawrence C.B. Chan and colleagues in his Baylor College of Medicine laboratory cured mice with type 1 diabetes by using a gene to induce liver cells to make insulin.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Fruit flies' genetic wealth has scientists abuzz
Buzzing with excitement, the "fly people" swarmed into Chicago this week to hear the latest news about an unsung hero of science: the humble fruit fly.
Mar 08, 2009 |
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