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• The Mutations That Kill: 1st Cancer Genomes Sequenced

  
  80beats — Authority: 632
  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: 639
  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: 449
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• New genes for lung disease discovered

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 440
  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: 468
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• More Stem Cell and Gene Therapy Progress Roundup

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 606
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Gene Therapy and Stem Cells save Limb

  
  CellNEWS — Authority: 117
  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 and stem cells save limb

  
  Biology News Net — Authority: 433
  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, researchers at Johns Hopkins have developed therapies that increase ...
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• Super Strength Substance (Myostatin) One Step Closer to Human Trials

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 611
  National Childrens Hospital used Macaques to test the effects of myostatin blocking on primates. The result: Muscular Monkeys Get muscles now, ask me how. As published in the journal Science Translational Medicine , researchers at the National Children’s Hospital (NCH) and Ohio State University have proven that ...
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• Gene Therapy Success Blocking Virus Replication and Stem Cell Successes

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 606
  A Danish drug tested on San Antonio chimpanzees is showing promise as a new gene-based therapy that fights hepatitis C and potentially other diseases. The drug, developed by biopharmaceutical firm Santaris Pharma doesnt directly fight the virus, which is quick to develop drug resistance. Instead, it targets and ...
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• New gene findings will help guide treatment in infant leukemia

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 440
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Researchers identify gene that spurs deadly brain cancer

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 440
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  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
  3 weeks ago

• Technology promises a bright future, 2009

  
  To the Future with Love — Authority: 106
  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: 109
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Clinical benefit of lentiviral gene therapy in two patients with a rare neurologic disease

  
  virology blog — Authority: 512
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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