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1,083 results for: GENE THERAPY

  1. Health & Medicine

    Unsolved drugs

    Long thought to launch precision attacks against bacteria, antibiotics may also cause lethal collateral damage, according to a controversial theory. Exploring how these compounds kill may reveal new ways to fight antibiotic resistance.

    By Beth Mole
  2. Health & Medicine

    Experimental type 1 diabetes treatment shows promise

    Findings in a small group of patients hint that a DNA-based therapy might work, but the effects fade after treatment stops.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Math

    Systems biology tunes in to cancer networks

    If cable TV systems had a channel called The Cancer Network, doctors would be wise to tune in. But there’s no such channel. So for now, they’ll just have to read articles in scientific journals that publish papers on the science of networks. Scientists in the new field of systems biology have made a lot […]

    By Tom Siegfried
  4. Life

    Exploration forges differences in identical twins

    Mice with the same genes and surroundings diverged in brain development depending on how much they moved around their environment.

    By Puneet Kollipara
  5. Neuroscience

    Memories lost and found

    Drugs that help mice remember reveal role for epigenetics in recall.

    By Susan Gaidos
  6. Life

    Tasmanian devil disease reveals its secrets

    The contagious cancer evades the animal’s immune system by turning off key genes.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  7. Life

    Dangerous Digs

    By properly managing a tumor cell’s microenvironment, cancer researchers are making cancer something people live with, not die from.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  8. Health & Medicine

    Baby may be cured of HIV

    Only viral traces remain after prompt treatment of newborn, suggesting no working virus is left in the girl’s body.

    By Nathan Seppa
  9. Humans

    A Cancer Patient’s Best Friend

    Similarities between tumors in people and dogs mean canine studies can inform human disease.

    By Laura Beil
  10. Life

    Cloning produces human embryonic stem cells

    Fine-tuning of technique used in other animals could enable personalized medicine.

    By Meghan Rosen
  11. Genetics

    Genetic mutations may explain a brain cancer’s tenacity

    DNA damage may transform adult cells in glioblastoma, making the malignancy harder to kill.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  12. Neuroscience

    The Anorexic Brain

    Neuroimaging improves understanding of eating disorder.

    By Meghan Rosen