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1,056 results for: GENE THERAPY

  1. Humans

    Obama Likes Research

    Featured blog: The Obama campaign answers 14 questions posed by the Science Debate 2008 committee, and research figured prominently in most of the answers.

    By Janet Raloff

  2. Gene Cuisine on the Menu

    By Science News
  3. Chemistry

    Delivering the Goods

    Experimental gene-delivery therapies generally use viruses to shuttle genetic material into cells, but some researchers are devising ways to avoid using the sometimes-risky viruses.

    By Jessica Gorman
  4. Life

    All the World’s a Phage

    There are an amazing number of bacteriophages—viruses that kill bacteria—in the world.

    By John Travis
  5. Health & Medicine

    Blood Sugar Fix

    A new class of experimental drugs that mimic the actions of the hormone glucagon-like peptide 1 shows benefits against type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes.

    By Nathan Seppa
  6. Health & Medicine

    Predicting Prostate Cancer’s Moves

    To guide treatment decisions in individual cases of prostate cancer, medical researchers are using gene-expression profiling and other novel techniques to develop better predictive markers of how a given tumor will behave.

    By Ben Harder
  7. Science & Society

    Science News of the Year 2003

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2003.

    By Science News
  8. Humans

    Science News of the Year 2003

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2003.

    By Science News
  9. Health & Medicine

    Inflammatory Fat

    Immune system cells may underlie much of the disease-provoking injury in obese individuals that has been linked to their excess fat.

    By Janet Raloff
  10. Health & Medicine

    Born to Heal

    The controversial strategy of screening embryos to produce donors for siblings raises hopes and presents new ethical dilemmas.

    By Ben Harder
  11. Health & Medicine

    All Roads Lead to RUNX

    Genetic mutations that predispose some people to the autoimmune diseases lupus, psoriasis, and rheumatoid arthritis appear to have a common molecular feature: They derail the work of a protein, called RUNX1, that regulates how active certain genes are.

    By Ben Harder

  12. Quite a Switch

    Cells use ribonucleic acids that bind to small molecules such as vitamins to control gene activity.

    By John Travis