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• Is Gene-Therapy Medical Treatment Ready for Prime Time?

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  After years of complications and high-profile setbacks, a series of small but intriguing advances has suggested that gene therapy may hold real future potential for treatment
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• Clinical benefit of lentiviral gene therapy in two patients with a rare neurologic disease

  
  virology blog — Authority: 421
  X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) is a rare neurologic disease caused by a defect in a gene required for normal ABCD1 transporter function. The lack of this function leads to progressive demyelination, severe neurologic disease and death in males, often in childhood. ALD disease progression can be controlled by ...
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• New genetic cause of cardiac failure discovered

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 435
  Contact: Dr. Wolfgang Rottbauer wolfgang.rottbauer@med.uni-heidelberg.de 49-622-1563-8851 University Hospital Heidelberg Unstable structural elements of the heart muscle lead to heart failure; Heidelberg cardiologists publish in Nature Medicine Over the course of a lifetime, the heart pumps some 250 million ...
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• Nanoparticles For Gene Therapy

  
  FuturePundit — Authority: 540
  An MIT press release about the use of nanoparticles to deliver gene therapy contains an interesting statistic about the size of the overall effort to develop clinically useful gene therapies: In the United States alone almost 1000 gene therapy clinical trials are underway. Thats a surprisingly large number. Is it ...
  1 week ago

• Gene Therapy Can Improve Muscle Mass and Strength in Monkeys, Research Suggests

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 553
  Cynomolgus macaque. New research in these primates suggests that a gene delivery strategy that produces follistatin can improve muscle mass and function.A study appearing in Science Translational Medicine puts scientists one step closer to clinical trials to test a gene delivery strategy to improve muscle mass and ...
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• Gene Therapy Studies Show Improvemment in Muscle-Wasting

  
  Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science — Authority: 135
  A gene therapy treatment that stopped the breakdown of muscle in monkeys may lead to a build up of muscle too.  The goal of the study is to improve muscle weakness caused by multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and other neurodegenerative diseases.  Researchers used an engineered virus to transport a gene into ...
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• Gene therapy on the brain

  
  Speaking of Research — Authority: 412
  Hot on the heels of last weeks report of the successful use of gene therapy to treat the eye disease Leber’s congenital amaurosis comes a report that scientists lead by Nathalie Cartier and Patrick Aubourg of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research have combined gene therapy and stem cell ...
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• No-entry zones for AIDS virus

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 125
  The AIDS virus inserts its genetic material into the genome of the infected cell. Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center have now shown for the first time that the virus almost entirely spares particular sites in the human genetic material in this process. This finding may be useful for developing new, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gene therapy -- myostatin -- Discovered once again

  
  Steroid Nation — Authority: 93
  Ongoing research into gene therapies that purport to enhance muscular development, have concerned anti-doping authorities for years.  Such therapies, if successful, would radically alter the playing field of sport.  The haves (athletes who could afford the procedure, or who hijack it) would dominate the games over ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gene Therapy That Bulks up Muscles Raises Doping Concerns

  
  80beats — Authority: 632
  A gene therapy treatment intended to reverse muscle weakness appears to restore muscle mass in monkeys, raising hopes that doctors may soon be able to treat this condition in humans with degenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis and muscular dystrophy. Scientists injected a gene into the monkeys’ thighs that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cornell researchers identify a weak link in cancer cell armor

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  ITHACA, N.Y. -- The seeming invincibility of cancerous tumors may be crumbling, thanks to a promising new gene therapy that eliminates the ability of certain cells to repair themselves.
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• The Wonderful World of Being a Science Geek Mom

  
  It's a dog's life — Authority: 123
  Latest chat with The Boy To truly understand this conversation you must know that we are from the Seattle area originally and most all of our family still lives there. The Boy : http://www.marriedtothesea.com/110909/being-a-dick.gif 8:47 AM me : How do they know that? 8:49 AM The Boy : ...
  2 weeks ago

• Effects of Hormone Balancing Therapy

  
  Yodle Local Articles — Authority: 156
  Dr. Edmund Chein is head of the Life Extension Institute in Palm Springs, California, where he discovered that bioidentical hormone therapy can stop and possibly even reverse the aging process. Here, he discusses the effects his therapy can have on an individual. At the Palm Springs Life Extension Institute, we ...
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• What is the Palm Springs Life Extension Institute?

  
  Yodle Local Articles — Authority: 156
  Dr. Edmund Chein is head of the Life Extension Institute in Palm Springs, California, based on his discovery of an anti-aging procedure using human growth and other bioidentical hormones . Below, he discusses what the Institute is all about. My Institute concentrates on two things: The first is to see how many ...
  2 weeks ago

• Advances in Gene Therapy

  
  Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science — Authority: 135
  French researchers have reported an advance toward curing the rare, inherited brain-wasting illness,  adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) using gene therapy.  ALD, made famous by the movie Lorenzo’s Oil, slowly strips away layers of fatty acids protecting nerve fibers in the brain .  Researchers used an experimental ...
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• Accelerating Stem cell generation

  
  Updates - SBAmin.com / Samir Amin — Authority: 120
  Hanna, et al. at Rudolf Jaenisch’s lab in MIT have discovered an approach to speed up generation of induced pluripotent cells (iPS), importantly with efficiency rate approaching ~ 100%. Low efficient rate of transformation was one of the biggest obstacle so far in iPS creation. In a news story at nature.com, lab ...
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• New gene therapy halts 2 boys’ rare brain disease!

  
  Wide Trends — Authority: 141
  New gene therapy halts 2 boys’ rare brain disease! French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to apparently halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence. The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn’t cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy ...
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• Brain disease treated by gene therapy – A treatment based on HIV finds first success in…

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  A treatment based on HIV finds first success in humans.Researchers have halted a fatal brain disease by delivering a therapeutic gene to the stem cells that mature into blood cells. The gene was transferred using a virus derived from HIV, a technique that researchers have pursued for more than a decade but has not ...
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• Nanocapsules for Artificial Photosynthesis and Improved Nanoparticles for Gene Therapy

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 624
  1. Chemists from the University of Würzburg have made progress to achieving artificial photosynthesis Nanocapsules have been loaded with reactive molecules which convert UV light to visible light which varies based on the pH of the environment. The chemical conversion to light could lead to artificial ...
  3 weeks ago

• NY Times, LA Times: Gene therapy successes

  
  Knight Science Journalism Tracker — Authority: 508
  Leber’s congenital amaurosis . Say that five times fast. Or try this one: adrenoleukodystrophy . If you’re a movie fan, you might be able the manage the second one: It was the disease in the movie Lorenzo’s Oil . These are among the diseases for which gene therapy has recently shown progress, according to a ...
  3 weeks ago

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