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• New gene therapy halts 2 boys’ rare brain disease!

  
  Wide Trends — Authority: 139
  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: 162
  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: 630
  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 days ago

• NY Times, LA Times: Gene therapy successes

  
  Knight Science Journalism Tracker — Authority: 566
  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 days ago

• Gene therapy technique slows brain disease

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 481
  A strategy that combines gene therapy with blood stem cell therapy may be a useful tool for treating a fatal brain disease, French researchers have found. These findings appear in the 6 November 2009 issue of the journal Science , which is published by AAAS, the nonprofit science society. In a pilot study of two ...
  3 days ago

• Gene Therapy Technique Slows Brain Disease ALD Featured In Movie ‘Lorenzo’s Oil’

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  This figure represents four cells, four purified CD34+ (the CD34+ cell population comprises true hematopoetic stem cell) from patient P1.A strategy that combines gene therapy with blood stem cell therapy may be a useful tool for treating a fatal brain disease, French researchers have found.These findings appear in the ...
  3 days ago

• A Resurgence for Gene Therapy

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 125
  scientists say gene therapy may be on the edge of a resurgence.
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• Fatal Brain Illness Halted In Mid Stride With Gene Therapy.

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 600
  A team of international scientists have successfully controlled the spread of a rare almost always fatal brain illness called X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) with the use of a new kind of gene therapy. The experimental gene therapy involved the use of a defunct version of the AIDS virus. The X-ALD is form of a ...
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• Modfied HIV Delivered Gene Therapy Could Treat Many Diseases

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 630
  In a pilot study of two patients monitored for two years, an international team of researchers slowed the onset of the debilitating brain disease X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) using a lentiviral vector to introduce a therapeutic gene into patients blood cells. Although studies with larger cohorts of patients ...
  4 days ago

• Neutered HIV Virus Delivers Treatment to Fatally Ill Boys

  
  80beats — Authority: 656
  Researchers may have taken a step towards curing the rare, inherited brain disease made famous by the movie Lorenzo’s Oil –and also towards ushering a new era of gene therapy . To help two young boys suffering from the disease, researchers tried an experimental treatment using a deactivated version of the HIV ...
  4 days ago

• Gene Therapy Technique Slows Brain Disease ALD Featured In Movie...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 153
  A strategy that combines gene therapy with blood stem cell therapy may be a useful tool for treating a fatal brain disease, French researchers have found.
  4 days ago

• Gene Therapy Halts Fatal Brain Disease

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 766
  Scientists have used gene therapy to halt the progression of adrenoleukodystrophy, a fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by a single defective gene, in two seven-year-old boys. It took more than a decade to refine the therapy, in which stem cells taken from the boys’ bone marrow were hacked with healthy copies ...
  4 days ago

• Gene Therapy Shows Promise in Restoring Vision

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 116
  There is an interesting article in this months Lancet:  Age-dependent effects of RPE65 gene therapy for Lebers congenital amaurosis: a phase 1 dose-escalation trial.     Results were also reported in yesterdays New York Times . According to the Lancet article: Gene therapy has the ...
  6 days ago

• Gene Therapy Restores Sight

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 125
  The boy relied on a cane and adults to guide him, and, unable to see blackboard writing, sat in back with a teachers aide, large-type computer screen and materials in Braille.
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• Gene therapy for blindness – when dogged determination pays off!

  
  Speaking of Research — Authority: 460
  Leber’s congenital amaurosis is a progressive disorder that affects about 3,000 Americans, and hundreds of thousands worldwide, and causes a progressive loss of vision that usually results in blindness. The disease, for which there has until now been no effective treatment, is caused by a mutation in the encoding ...
  1 week ago

• Caltech researchers show efficacy of gene therapy in mouse models of Huntington’s disease

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 481
  Antibodies against intracellular targets can reduce symptoms, lengthen life span Pasadena, Calif.Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have shown that a highly specific intrabody (an antibody fragment that works against a target inside a cell) is capable of stalling the development of ...
  1 week ago

• Perfect Stranger in Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls

  
  incipit vita nova — Authority: 121
  The first all-Book View Cafe/Book View Press anthology is live now. You can download the Kindle version for $4.99, and its also available at Book View Cafe. Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls (Sarah disavowed the title, and I honestly...
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• Scientists using gene therapy to stall Huntington’s disease

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 1 (ANI): Scientists from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have suggested a gene therapy that is capable of stalling the development of Huntington’s disease.Huntington’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder with a genetic basis. The disorder has its roots in a mutation in a protein ...
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• Patients Waiting for Lung Transplants May Soon Breathe a Sigh of Relief

  
  80beats — Authority: 656
  Emphysema and cystic fibrosis patients who need new lungs are faced with a life-threatening problem: more than 80 percent of donated lungs can’t be used—they’re inflamed and barely functional [ Scientific American ]. Transplanted lungs also fail at a much higher rate than other transplanted organs, as ...
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• Gene therapy may heal injured human donor lungs before transplant

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Oct 29 (ANI): For the first time, a team of scientists in Canada have successfully used gene therapy to repair injured human donor lungs, making them potentially suitable for transplantation into patients. This technique could significantly expand the number of donor lungs by using organs that are ...
  1 week ago

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