Gene therapy for placental insufficiency moves toward the clinic
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 15, 2020--A new study identified an adenovirus gene therapy vector ...
Tag: Gene Therapy
Gene discovery could help prevent heart attacks
Credit: Courtesy Civelek lab Researchers at the University of Virginia have shed light on how our genes affect our risk ...
Researchers tackle sickle cell disease with CRISPR-based gene editing
$1 million grant will advance personalized medicine using gene editing at ChristianaCare's Gene Editing InstituteCredit: ChristianaCare Gene Editing Institute Scientists ...
Reversal of glial scar tissue back to neuronal tissue through neuroregenerative gene therapy
Credit: Jinan University Brain or spinal cord injury often results in glial scar tissue that is correlated to neural functional ...
Expensive gene therapies raise challenges and opportunities: Expert panel report
New CCA expert panel reportCredit: Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) Gene therapies are being approved for use in Canada, but ...
Cancer’s dangerous renovations to our chromosomes revealed
Credit: Courtesy Zang lab Cancer remodels the architecture of our chromosomes so the disease can take hold and spread, researchers ...
CRISPR screen identifies genes, drug targets to protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection
Credit: Sanjana Lab of New York Genome Center/New York University NEW YORK, NY (October 26, 2020) - To identify new ...
New genes related to autism spectrum disorder
Transposon domestication in the BEX/TCEAL cluster and autismCredit: University Of Barcelona - Andalusian Centre For Development Biology The lack of ...
Paper: Congress must clarify limits of gene-editing technologies
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. --Genome editing of human embryos represents one of the most contentious potential ...
RNA editing of BFP using artificial APOBEC1 deaminase to restore the genetic
Credit: JAIST Various genetic diseases caused by point mutations have no established therapeutic approaches. Prof. Tsukahara and colleagues (Japan Advanced ...
Treating cystic fibrosis with mRNA therapy or CRISPR
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 8, 2020--The potential for treating cystic fibrosis (CF) using mRNA ...
Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Credit: UC Berkeley Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a professor at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at the Department of Energy's Lawrence ...
Microneedles for therapeutic gene delivery
Researchers develop a minimally invasive biodegradable microneedle patch as a novel delivery mode for gene therapy applicationsCredit: Khademhosseini Lab (LOS ...
Yale cancer receives ACGT grant to advance strategies for treating pancreatic cancer
Versatile and highly scalable technology simultaneously targets multiple differences and activates multiple immune system responsesCredit: Yale Cancer Center With a ...
Cardiac arrhythmias linked to gene mutations
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 28, 2020—Life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias can be linked to the functional and ...
Genetic differences in body fat shape men and women’s health risks
Credit: Courtesy Civelek lab New research is revealing how genetic differences in the fat in men's and women's bodies affect ...
Three genes predict success of naltrexone in alcohol dependence treatment
Variation in just three brain genes predicts how well a medication will work in treating a patient with alcohol use ...
The co-occurrence of cancer driver genes, key to precision medicine
Researchers from the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology Laboratory at IRB Barcelona develop a system to predict tumour response to ...
CNIO identifies genetic factors associated to hand-foot syndrome in chemotherapy with capecitabine
Credit: CNIO Capecitabine is a chemotherapy drug used for breast and colorectal Cancer cancer. It can extend survival rate by ...
Gene therapy corrects the cardiac effects of Friedreich’s ataxia
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 18, 2020—Gene therapy was successfully used to overcome the cardiac ...
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