Gene therapy may treat Alzheimer's, claims study supriya kashyap kashyap12 Oct 2016 9:51 AM ISTLondon : Injecting a specific gene directly into the brain may offer a potential new therapy for halting the progress of Alzheimer's disease,...
Pancreatitis reduced by nearly 50 percenct after gene therapy to treat lipoprotein lipase deficiency supriya kashyap kashyap13 Nov 2016 10:38 AM ISTOver a 6-year period, patients with the genetic disease lipoprotein lipase deficiency (LPLD) who received a single gene therapy treatment of alipogene...
New find offers hope for some Hemophiliacs supriya kashyap kashyap2 April 2017 10:49 AM ISTWashington : A team of researchers has improved the vectors for delivering human factor VIII (hFVIII) gene therapy to treat Hemophilia A.The...
New technology to alter genes in human embryos developed Anjali Nimesh Nimesh31 July 2017 10:00 AM ISTA team of researchers in Oregon has become the first to genetically edit and modify human embryos and demonstrate that diseases in offspring can be...
Gene therapy via skin could treat many diseases, even obesity Anjali Nimesh Nimesh8 Aug 2017 10:30 AM ISTA research team based at the University of Chicago has overcome challenges that have limited gene therapy and demonstrated how their novel approach...
Gene therapy shows promise for reversing blindness supriya kashyap kashyap14 Oct 2017 7:10 PM ISTIn a laboratory study in Oxford, researchers have shown how it might be possible to reverse blindness using gene therapy to reprogram cells at the...
FDA Approves Second CAR T-Cell Therapy Anjali Nimesh Nimesh20 Oct 2017 7:10 PM ISTThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel), a cell-based gene therapy, to treat adult patients with...
Boy is given new skin thanks to gene therapy Anjali Nimesh Nimesh8 Nov 2017 8:30 PM ISTA medical team at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum's burn unit and the Center for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Modena (Italy) were the first...
Genetic treatment for blindness may soon be reality Anjali Nimesh Nimesh13 Nov 2017 8:00 PM ISTPatients who had lost their sight to an inherited retinal disease could see well enough to navigate a maze after being treated with a new gene...
World's smallest tape recorder is built from microbes Anjali Nimesh Nimesh27 Nov 2017 7:28 PM ISTThrough a few clever molecular hacks, researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have converted a natural bacterial immune system into a...
No need of factor IX infusions in Hemophilia B after single dose of gene therapy Anjali Nimesh Nimesh8 Dec 2017 8:30 PM ISTThe New England Journal of Medicine has published interim data as of July 25, 2017, from the Phase 1/2 clinical trial of SPK-9001, an investigational...
Gene therapy safe and effective in babies with 'bubble boy' disease Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli11 Dec 2017 7:15 PM ISTEarly evidence suggests that gene therapy developed at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will lead to broad protection for infants with the...
