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• Here’s Looking at You, Virus

  
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  Newly evolved viral-gene combo could safely cure blindness Gene therapy’s had a bad reputation over the years, but some gene-based treatments have been successful. One type of therapy, for degeneration of the retina , has been somewhere in the middle: Injecting a gene directly into the retina that can aid ...
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• More Effective Gene Therapy May Be On The Horizon

  
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  Degenerative diseases of the retina arise from pathogenic mutations in mRNA transcripts expressed in the eye’s photoreceptor cells or retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), leading to cell death and structural deterioration over time. A photoreceptor cell is a specialized type of neuron found in the retina, capable of ...
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• Prince Andrew opens new transplant center

  
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  by TOM FOOT, Camden New Journal “ Prince Andrew, a patron of the NHS Trust, gave his royal seal of approval to The UCL Institute for Immunity and Transplantation.  The opening of the institute is the first step in a journey which I hope will end in us being able to repair and replace many damaged organs and ...
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• Landmark decision? US Supreme Court rules human genes cannot be patented

  
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  In what is being ballyhooed as a landmark decision likely to set the course of DNA-based diagnostic and therapeutic medicine for the next several decades, the US Supreme Court unanimously decided on June 13 that human genes are not patentable. Rather than objects invented or discovered, human genes are henceforth to ...
  6 days ago

• Gene therapy

  
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  Wouldn’t it be great if disease caused by possession of a faulty gene could be treated at the genetic level rather than simply influencing the symptoms? Despite some initial success, the approach has proven harder to achieve in practice than was originally envisaged. This short video on the topic was produced by ...
  1 week ago

• Gene Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Takes Quantum Leap

  
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  Using dogs, Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) researchers engineered a new micro-dystrophin gene, taking a giant leap forward in gene therapy for humans.The post Gene Therapy for Duchenne Muscular... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Turning insect viruses into cancer therapies

  
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  Gene therapy is a pretty promising approach for lots of different diseases, and has already overcome a huge hurdle with the approval of the very first gene therapy product, Glybera , by the European Commission in 2012. At its core, gene therapy uses a delivery vehicle to deposit a chunk of DNA in particular cells of ...
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• 10 Options in Treating Mesothelioma

  
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  As with any cancer, treatment for Mesothelioma depends on the location of the cancer, the progression of the disease, the age as well as state of health of the patient. It is the oncologist who specializes in the disease who will decide on the line of treatment. The disease is difficult to treat and in [...] Hak Cipta ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gene Therapies for Regenerative Surgery Are Getting Closer

  
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  Over the past ten years, researchers have developed several promising gene therapy techniques to grow skin, bone and other tissues for reconstructive surgery. But they still face many challenges in developing gene-based approaches that can make the leap from the research lab to the operating room, according to The ...
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• Medtech from incremental to quantum leap advances

  
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  Advanced medical technologies become advanced by the application of innovation that results in more effective, less costly or otherwise arguably better outcomes (including reduced risk of complications or disease recurrence) for patients, including in some cases enabling treatment when none was previously ...
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• Nasal Spray gene therapy could protect against flu and pandemic flu

  
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  Researchers have come up with an alternative, faster (than vaccine) strategy for when a pandemic influenza virus surfaces: Just squirt genes for the protective antibodies into peoples noses. The method—which borrows ideas from both gene therapy and vaccination, but is neither—protects mice against a wide range of ...
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• Plastic surgery of the future will rely on gene therapy

  
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  Reconstructive surgery (credit: U.S. Army/Nashaunda Tilghman/Wikimedia Commons) Reconstructive surgery has made huge strides forward in the past few decades alone, helping countless people live a life closer to normal, freer from the immense harshness and pain that comes with damaged and exposed tissue. In the ...
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• Gene Therapy Shows Protection in Animal Models to Flu Strains

  
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  Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania have developed a new gene therapy to thwart a potential influenza pandemic. Specifically, investigators in the Gene Therapy Program, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, directed by James M. Wilson, MD, PhD, demonstrated that a ...
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• Scientists Create World’s Most Complex Biomolecular Computer

  
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  Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a powerful new biomolecular computing device that could significantly advance gene therapy and cloning. Professor Ehud Keinan of the Technion Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and his team produced a biological transducer that can manage genetic ...
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• New Gene Therapy Shows Broad Protection in Animal Models to Pandemic Flu Strains, including the Deadly 1918 Spanish Influenza

  
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  Related PostsNew Key to Tissue RegenerationMeet The ‘Liberator’: Test-Firing The World’s First Fully 3D-Printed GunIndolent or aggressive?A Privacy Risk in Your DNACould the humble... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• New gene delivery method: magnetic nanoparticles

  
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  ( Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology ) Stent angioplasty saves lives, but comes with complications. Research in The FASEB Journal, discusses a new nanoparticle gene delivery method, hopefully overcoming limitations of gene therapy vectors and preventing complications associated with stenting. ...
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• Woodcock Urges Forward March Toward Personalized Medicine

  
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  New approaches for conducting clinical trials and developing therapies that actually prevent and cure disease are key to the future of effective drug therapy, according to Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). Personalized medicine has achieved mainstream status, ...
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• Remedy# 101 Improve Your Circadian Rhythm to Treat Depression

  
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  This is fascinating. According to a study, people with severe depression feel like they are living in a separate time zone from everyone else. How? Because the biological clock in their brains has been corrupted. In other words, the circadian rhythm of severely depressed people has been notably altered. A circadian ...
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• Reference reports in Ophthalmology, Coronary Stents and Tissue Engineering

  
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  MedMarket Diligence is making available previously published, comprehensive analyses of three different medtech markets. The markets covered in the three reports are: Ophthalmology Diagnostics, Devices and Drugs (see link ) Coronary Stents: Drug-Eluting, Bare, Bioresorbable and Others  (see link ) Tissue ...
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• Advice to forward-looking medtech manufacturers (and their competitors)

  
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  Will Rogers said, “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” The current challenge for medtech manufacturers is that, as a result of a wide range of forces, trends and developments, the train that threatens to run them over has gotten a whole lot faster. Below is a short ...
  4 weeks ago

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