Virus surfaces help MTU engineers study vaccine and gene therapy applications
Credit: Jess Brassard/Michigan Tech Viruses are not easy to characterize. But we need to because being able to quickly predict ...
Tag: Gene Therapy
Study of cardiac muscles in flies might help you keep your heart young
Credit: Hua Bai AMES, Iowa - Researchers may have discovered a way to turn back the clock on aging heart ...
Mayo Clinic researchers pursue single-dose gene therapy to treat cocaine addiction
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 7, 2020--In a radical new approach to treat cocaine addition, ...
Using gene therapy to treat chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 3, 2020--A new study shows the feasibility of using gene ...
Mayo clinic researchers test novel injection of gene therapy vectors into the kidney
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 31, 2019--Before gene therapy can be used to treat renal ...
Injection of virus-delivered gene silencer blocks ALS degeneration, saves motor function
Novel spinal therapy/delivery approach prevented disease onset in neurodegenerative ALS disease model in adult mice and blocked progression in animals ...
Strong change of course for muscle research
New subtype of muscle stem cells that can be used in the development of gene therapiesCredit: Spuler lab, MDC Anyone ...
Researchers create functional mini-liver by 3D bioprinting
Technique developed at Human Genome and Stem Cell Research Center, funded by FAPESP and hosted by the University of São ...
Increasing food intake by swapping mitochondrial genomes
Credit: Maria Litovchenko & Roel Bevers (EPFL) Many of the characteristics that make people so different from each other, are ...
Janus bases among The Scientist’s Top Innovations of 2019
Invented at Carnegie Mellon, the bivalent nucleic acid recognition platform is being used to develop treatments for rare genetic diseasesCredit: ...
Research enables artificial intelligence approach to create AAV capsids for gene therapies
Dyno Therapeutics founders and collaborators demonstrate machine-guided AAV capsid engineering with the potential to transform gene therapy Credit: Eric Kelsic, ...
Harvard Wyss Institute researchers demonstrate machine-guided engineering of AAV capsids
High-throughput synthetic biology approach reveals hidden AAV features and could help fast-track future gene therapiesCredit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University ...
Delivering large genes to the retina is problematic
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, November 12, 2019--A new study has shown that a commonly used ...
From plants, UVA extracts a better way to determine what our genes do
New technique to help explore genetic diseases, benefit drug developmentCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Scientists at the University of ...
New molecule reduces the aggressiveness of pediatric cancer
A microRNA inhibitor identified by researchers at the FAPESP-supported Human Genome and Stem Cell Research Center reduced the sizes of ...
A new CRISPR-Cas9 protein to increase precision of gene editing
Credit: City University of Hong Kong A team of researchers from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and Karolinska Institutet ...
EMBL spins the Sleeping Beauty transposase
New possibilities for gene therapiesCredit: Scienseed The team, comprising researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, the Universitätsklinikum Würzburg and ...
U. Iowa team is developing new delivery tools for gene editing
Engineered peptides provide efficient, non-toxic delivery of gene-editing proteins to airway cellsCredit: Paul McCray, University of Iowa News of advances ...
New gene therapy for epilepsy provides on-demand release of endogenous substance
Preclinical study shows long-term suppression of seizuresCredit: Schwarzer/Medical University of Innsbruck Teams of researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and ...
Progressing toward successful gene-based approaches to inherited neurometabolic diseases
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 29, 2019--Researchers are making great strides toward de-veloping gene-based strategies ...
