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1,053 results for: GENE THERAPY

  1. Health & Medicine

    Mutated gene cited in some ovarian cancers

    The finding may help researchers devise a way to screen women with endometriosis for cancer risk.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Life

    Scientists race to understand deadly new virus

    Emerging virus causes severe illness, but doesn’t spread as quickly as SARS.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Life

    Cloning produces human embryonic stem cells

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

    By Meghan Rosen
  7. Health & Medicine

    Clues to autism’s roots from brain study

    A new analysis finds differences in genetic activity, especially in genes controlling nerve cell form and function.

    By Laura Sanders

  8. Sharing the Health: Cells from unusual mice make others cancerfree

    Immune-cell transplants from an extraordinary strain of mice that resists cancer can pass this trait to mice that aren't as lucky.

    By Christen Brownlee

  9. Getting Back at Celiac: Enzyme treatment might stem wheat intolerance

    A combination of two enzymes could eventually treat celiac disease, an inherited digestive disorder.

    By Christen Brownlee

  10. Engineering a Cure: Genetically modified cells fight cancer

    By inserting a gene into normal immune cells isolated from melanoma patients, scientists have turned the cells into cancer fighters.

    By Christen Brownlee

  11. Derailing a Disease: Stem cells slow dogs’ muscular dystrophy

    Injecting a special type of stem cell into dogs with the canine equivalent of Duchenne muscular dystrophy significantly slowed the disease's progression.

    By Christen Brownlee
  12. Health & Medicine

    Early Fix: Prion disease remedied in mice

    Diseases caused by misfolded proteins called prions can be reversed if caught early enough, experiments in mice suggest.

    By Nathan Seppa