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1,053 results for: GENE THERAPY

  1. Health & Medicine

    Categorizing Cancers: Gene activity predicts leukemia outcome

    By dividing acute myeloid leukemia into subtypes on the basis of which genes are abnormally active in a given patient, doctors may be able to predict outcomes and make better treatment decisions.

    By Ben Harder
  2. Health & Medicine

    Gene Delivery: Mouse study shows new therapy may reverse muscular dystrophy

    A single defective gene causes muscular dystrophy, and researchers have now found a way to deliver a working copy of that gene to the entire muscular system in mice.

    By Carrie Lock
  3. Health & Medicine

    Gene stifled in some lung, breast cancers

    The silencing of a gene called RASSF1A appears to increase the risk of cancer, studies of lung and breast tumors show.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Health & Medicine

    Poliovirus slaughters brain tumors in mice

    Scientists have altered a live polio virus, inducing it to target and kill brain tumor cells without causing polio.

    By Jessa Netting
  5. Health & Medicine

    Genetically altered cells ease hemophilia

    A gene therapy using skin cells that are genetically modified to make clotting proteins, multiplied in a lab, and reinjected into a person eases some bleeding in patients with severe hemophilia.

    By Nathan Seppa
  6. Health & Medicine

    Protein flags colon, prostate cancers

    A compound first identified as a possible culprit in Huntington's disease may be an indicator of cancers of the prostate gland and colon.

    By Nathan Seppa
  7. Health & Medicine

    Stressing out

    A gene variant reduces people's response to the stress hormone cortisol, and people with the variant are less likely to have risk factors for heart disease and diabetes.

    By Damaris Christensen
  8. Health & Medicine

    Pregnancy Woe Uncovered: Protein may underlie preeclampsia

    New evidence links a placental protein to preeclampsia symptoms and may lead to new ways of detecting and treating the disease.

    By Kendall Morgan

  9. Genetic Clue to Aging? Mutation causes early-aging syndrome

    A gene defect that causes accelerated aging may provide insight into normal aging.

    By John Travis
  10. Health & Medicine

    Inside Job

    Teams of microbes pull strings in the human body.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  11. Life

    Helping Bats Hold On

    Scientists seek a savior as a deadly fungal pandemic explodes through vulnerable colonies.

    By Janet Raloff

  12. Tumor Tell-All

    Unraveling complex genetic stories in cancer cells may lead to personalized treatment.

    By Tina Hesman Saey