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1,077 results for: GENE THERAPY

  1. Health & Medicine

    Nurturing Our Microbes

    Nurturing the microbes living in the human body can pay dividends—from shortening the length of colds to fighting obesity and osteoporosis.

    By Janet Raloff
  2. Tech

    Cellular Smugglers: Laden nanoparticles hitch a ride on bacteria

    Molecular cargoes loaded onto nanoparticles can sneak into mammalian cells on the backs of bacteria.

    By Sarah Webb
  3. Health & Medicine

    Taking Cancer’s Fingerprint: Rapid genetic profiling for personalized therapy

    A new, faster way to identify cancer-causing mutations in the DNA of tumor cells may pave the way for the next generation of custom-tailored cancer therapies.

    By Patrick Barry

  4. Cells’ Root: Adult stem cells have a master gene

    Scientists have found a master gene that allows tissue-regenerating stem cells to retain their regenerative capacity.

    By Patrick Barry

  5. Female Stem Cells Flourish: Sex difference could affect therapies

    Certain adult stem cells from female mice regenerate better than those from males, indicating that not all stem cells are created equal.

    By Patrick Barry
  6. Health & Medicine

    Superbug: What makes one bacterium so deadly

    A molecule that pierces immune cells gives some aggressive antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria their fearsome virulence.

    By Sarah Williams
  7. Health & Medicine

    Calming Factor: DNA vaccine for MS passes initial test

    A DNA vaccine against multiple sclerosis passes a safety trial and shows signs of suppressing immune-directed nerve damage.

    By Nathan Seppa

  8. Our Microbes, Ourselves

    Trillions of microbes live in the human gut and skin, and they may be essential to health.

    By Alexandra Goho
  9. Health & Medicine

    The Long Road to Beta Cells

    In their quest to cure type 1 diabetes, scientists are finding that turning stem cells into insulin-producing beta cells is a lot harder than it first appeared.

    By Brian Vastag
  10. 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
  11. Humans

    Science News of the Year 2007

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

    By Science News

  12. 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