Gene therapy

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• Kala Pharmaceuticals, Stealthy New Company Tied to MIT’s Bob Langer, Gets $2M

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 664
  Biotech , VC , deals Luke Timmerman wrote: MIT’s famously inventive bioengineering professor, Bob Langer , is lending his expertise to yet another fledgling biotech company. Boston-based Kala Pharmaceuticals, which lists Langer on its board of directors, has secured a $2 million equity financing, ...
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• Gene Therapy May Stop Emphysema’s Progression

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 704
  Boston, Massachusetts, United States (AHN) – Boston University researchers say they discovered a new gene therapy that may prevent the progression of emphysema. The researchers said in a statement that therapy was potent enough that one treatment lasted a lifetime in people with a gene deficiency responsible for ...
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• Gene therapy to prevent lung disease progression discovered

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 22 (ANI): Boston University researchers have found a new gene therapy to thwart the progression of emphysema, a lung disease.Alpha-1 Anti-trypsin Deficiency is the most frequently inherited form of emphysema found in young people due to a mutation in the Alpha-1 Anti-trypsin gene. This genetic disorder ...
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• Gene Therapy May Stall Inherited Emphysema

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  A new type of gene therapy may stop the progression of the most common form of inherited emphysema.
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• Researchers discover gene therapy to prevent progression of emphysema

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  (Boston) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered a new gene therapy that may prevent the progression of emphysema. The study, which appears on-line in the Journal of Clinical Investigation , describes a method to express therapeutic genes in lung tissue for a lifetime after ...
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• Breakthrough of the Year (almost!)

  
  Speaking of Research — Authority: 455
  As the year draws to a close it’s time to reflect on an exciting year of animal research, and there seems no better place to start than with the top 10 breakthroughs of the year as selected by the prestigious scientific journal Science. Science is of course a general science magazine, and the choices reflect [...]
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• Researchers discover gene therapy to prevent progression of emphysema

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 144
  Contact: Gina M. DiGravio gina.digravio@bmc.org 617-638-8480 Boston University Medical Center (Boston) Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered a new gene therapy that may prevent the progression of emphysema. The study, which appears on-line in the Journal of Clinical ...
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• Gene for devastating kidney disease discovered

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 144
  Contact: Keri Stedman keri.stedman@childrens.harvard.edu 617-919-3110 Children’s Hospital Boston Discovery suggests how toxin-filtering cells go awry Researchers from Children’s Hospital Boston and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have identified an important genetic cause of a devastating kidney disease ...
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• Epigenetic therapy

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 603
  Epigenetics research takes aim at cancer, Alzheimers, autism, other illnesses. Two mice. One weighs 20 grams and has brown fur. The other is a hefty 60 grams with yellow fur and is prone to diabetes and cancer. Theyre identical twins, with identical DNA. Their varying traits are controlled by a mediator between ...
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• Florida Trend names UF’s Hauswirth top scientist newsmaker of 2009

  
  insider - UF College of Medicine News Resource - University of Florida — Authority: 122
  William W. Hauswirth, Ph.D., a professor in the ophthalmology department at the UF College of Medicine Gene therapy pioneer William W. Hauswirth, Ph.D., has been named “Florida Newsmaker of the Year” for science in the January 2010 issue of Florida Trend, the statewide magazine for Florida’s leaders. ...
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• The Mutations That Kill: 1st Cancer Genomes Sequenced

  
  80beats — Authority: 635
  The genomes of lung and skin cancer have been decoded by scientists at the UK-based Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge, which is the first time an entire cancer gene map has been created. The scientists say they have pinpointed specific DNA errors that may cause tumors in these two cancers, both ...
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• 3 UAB researchers elected AAAS fellows

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Three University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) professors have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Link:  http://www.uab.edu
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• Stem Cell Road Map to Make U.K. Research Easier

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Stem cell researchers in the United Kingdom will, for the first time, benefit from a new online resource that will allow them to plan a regulatory route for their research, Minister for Public Health Gillian Merron has announced. The website known as the “UK Stem Cell Tool Kit”, will allow researchers to build a ...
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• Radical Evolution, Part 1

  
  New World Order University Forum — Authority: 122
  We are still standing on square one pointing to the people and institutions that want to control us under the New World Order. We haven’t paid enough attention to the U.S. military. No, we are not talking about Iraq and Afghanistan, counterinsurgency strategies, or psyops strategies to spread disinformation through ...
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• Manhattan Beach Project to reverse aging by 2029 (ZDNet)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  Human life expectancy may see a hockey stick growth curve in the coming years as a result of leaps made in fields such as molecular nanotechnology, gene therapy, robotics, and regenerative medicine. Seizing the potential for radical longevity, an effort dubbed the “Manhattan Beach Project”, is a focused and ...
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• New genes for lung disease discovered

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 144
  Contact: Dr. Martin Tobin mt47@leicester.ac.uk 44-116-229-7270 University of Leicester New genetics study by consortium led by universities of Leicester and Nottingham Scientists have discovered five genetic variants that are associated with the health of the human lung. The research by an international ...
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• Blood reboot

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 471
  I pointed out the new treatment protocol for the sickle cell trait last week. In the interest of complete coverage of hemoglobinopathies, Ill link to Science s news article on gene therapy for beta-thalassemia : β-thalassemia involves a flaw in the gene coding for β-globin, one of the protein chains that make ...
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• More Stem Cell and Gene Therapy Progress Roundup

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 603
  1. Researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and colleagues have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered into cells that can target and kill HIV-infected cells -- a process that potentially could be used against a range of chronic viral diseases they have made the equivalent of a ...
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• Gene Therapy and Stem Cells save Limb

  
  CellNEWS — Authority: 119
  Gene Therapy and Stem Cells save Limb Wednesday, 09 December 2009 Blood vessel blockage, a common condition in old age or diabetes, leads to low blood flow and results in low oxygen, which can kill cells and tissues. Such blockages can require amputation resulting in loss of limbs. Now, using mice as their model, ...
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• Gene Therapy Cures Blindness in Monkeys

  
  Brian.Carnell.Com — Authority: 127
  Wired Science and Singularity Hub both covered the recent publication in Nature of a study demonstrating curing color blindness in monkeys using gene therapy that allowed two squirrel monkeys to produce a protein that allowed them to see reds and greens. Wired’s Brandon Keim wrote, At first, the two monkeys ...
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