Researchers uncover mechanism for how common gene therapy vectors enter cells
Identification of GPR108 as 'lock' for adeno-associated virus vector (AAV) is crucial to this emerging novel class of genetic medicine ...
Tag: Gene Therapy
Potential way to halt blinding macular degeneration identified
Scientists find unexpected connection between 2 main forms of AMDCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Researchers have successfully treated age-related ...
UMMS scientist shows gene therapy protection of eyesight in models of multiple sclerosis
Research identifies mechanism of synaptic damage in certain neurodegenerative disordersCredit: UMass Medical School New research by Dorothy P. Schafer, PhD, ...
Cardiac and visual degeneration arrested by a food supplement
UNIGE researchers have discovered a new gene that causes blindness and cardiomyopathy; they have also managed to halt the progression ...
Michael J. Bamshad, MD, named inaugural Editor-in-Chief of HGG Advances
New open access journal to launch in 2020Credit: Courtesy Dr. Bamshad Rockville, MD - The American Society of Human Genetics ...
UNH researchers solve protein structure associated with inherited retinal diseases
Credit: UNH DURHAM, N.H. - Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have reported the first structural model for a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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