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  • The Mutations That Kill: 1st Cancer Genomes Sequenced


    80beatsAuthority 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 ...
    19 hours ago
  • 3 UAB researchers elected AAAS fellows


    Science Blog - Science news straight from the sourceAuthority 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
    20 hours ago
  • Stem Cell Road Map to Make U.K. Research Easier


    Net News PublisherAuthority 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 ...
    2 days ago
  • Radical Evolution, Part 1


    New World Order University ForumAuthority 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 ...
    2 days ago
  • Manhattan Beach Project to reverse aging by 2029 (ZDNet)


    NanoTechBIZZ.comAuthority 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 NewsAuthority 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 ...
    5 days ago
  • Blood reboot


    john hawks weblogAuthority 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 FutureAuthority 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


    CellNEWSAuthority 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, ...
    1 week ago
  • Gene therapy and stem cells save limb


    Biology News NetAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • Super Strength Substance (Myostatin) One Step Closer to Human Trials


    Singularity HubAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • Gene Therapy Success Blocking Virus Replication and Stem Cell Successes


    Next Big FutureAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • New gene findings will help guide treatment in infant leukemia


    BreakThrough Digest Medical NewsAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • Gene Therapy Hastens Healing Process in Chronic Leg Ulcers


    advanced medical technologiesAuthority 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 NewsAuthority 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 ...
    2 weeks ago
  • When is an implant not a device


    advanced medical technologiesAuthority 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.comAuthority 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 LoveAuthority 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? ...
    3 weeks ago
  • siRNA Drug to Treat Genetic Skin Disease Pachyonychia Congenita


    The Biotech WeblogAuthority 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 blogAuthority 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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