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• New gene findings will help guide treatment in infant leukemia

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 437
  Contact: Rachel Salis-Silverman Salis@email.chop.edu 267-426-6063 Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia In youngest babies, this type of blood cancer is most challenging Pediatric oncologists have identified specific genes, dubbed partner genes, that fuse with another gene to drive an often-fatal form of ...
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• Gene Therapy Hastens Healing Process in Chronic Leg Ulcers

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  One of the most problematic (read "costly") areas of healthcare is the treatment of chronic wounds, most often but not always caused by poor circulation. Due to the high cost of treating these wound (which are growing in prevalence alongside the increasing prevalence of obesity and diabetes), they have engendered ...
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• Researchers identify gene that spurs deadly brain cancer

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 437
  Contact: Jim Keeley keeleyj@hhmi.org 240-688-6630 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have identified a new factor that is necessary for the development of many forms of medulloblastoma, the most common type of malignant childhood brain cancer. HHMI investigator ...
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• When is an implant not a device

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  The continued evolution of medical technologies is making it increasingly difficult, almost moot, to distinguish a medical device from other therapeutics. In Science Translational Medicine November 30, 2009, Harvard scientists report on the use of a polymer disc that stimulates an immune response that in turn ...
  6 days ago

• 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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• Technology promises a bright future, 2009

  
  To the Future with Love — Authority: 107
  First, a great site about jellies found underneath vthe Arctic sea. They are stunningly beautiful. And an interesting if somewhat creepy news that I wont comment. Robot attacked Swedish factory worker (and almost killed him) Today: Evolving Robots Learn To Lie To Each Other A cordless future for electricity? ...
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• siRNA Drug to Treat Genetic Skin Disease Pachyonychia Congenita

  
  The Biotech Weblog — Authority: 113
  In the November 24 online issue of the journal Molecular Therapy, scientists report a new treatment for pachyonychia congenita, an ultra-rare genetic skin condition due to mutations in the keratin gene. The disorder is characterized by painful, blistering calluses on the feet and limbs that limit a patients ability to ...
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• Clinical benefit of lentiviral gene therapy in two patients with a rare neurologic disease

  
  virology blog — Authority: 468
  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: 437
  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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• Gene increases effectiveness of drugs used to fight cancer and allows reduction in dosage

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 437
  Researchers at the University of Granada have found a suicide gene, called ‘gene E’, which leads to the death of tumour cells derived from breast, lung and colon cancer, and prevents their growth. The importance of this new gene is that its use to fight cancer can reduce the potent drugs that are currently used, ...
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• Nanoparticles For Gene Therapy

  
  FuturePundit — Authority: 543
  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 ...
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• the honest scoop – 11-27-09

  
  honestbaby — Authority: 136
  Today’s top news headlines for parents A tragic accident that has left a 5-month old baby badly burned serves as a cautious reminder about the potential danger of space heaters. NFL champion Charles Woodsen gave thanks yesterday by donating $2 million to the new University of Michigan Mott Children’s ...
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• 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gene Therapy Studies Show Improvemment in Muscle-Wasting

  
  Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science — Authority: 133
  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: 456
  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, ...
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• Gene therapy -- myostatin -- Discovered once again

  
  Steroid Nation — Authority: 92
  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 ...
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• Gene Therapy That Bulks up Muscles Raises Doping Concerns

  
  80beats — Authority: 623
  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 ...
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• Cornell researchers identify a weak link in cancer cell armor

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 649
  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 : ...
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