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1,077 results for: GENE THERAPY

  1. Health & Medicine

    Know Your Enemy

    Scientists mine the tuberculosis genome.

    By Damaris Christensen
  2. Tech

    Special Delivery: Metallic nanorods shuttle genes

    A new gene therapy technique relies on nanorods made of gold and nickel to deliver genes to cells in the body.

    By Alexandra Goho
  3. Health & Medicine

    Gene therapy thwarts hepatitis C in mice

    Gene therapy that induces infected liver cells to self-destruct slows hepatitis C dramatically in mice.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Health & Medicine

    Viral protein could help liver therapy

    Researchers have developed a method of delivering gene therapies to targeted cells that makes use of viral proteins rather than whole virus particles.

    By Ben Harder
  5. Health & Medicine

    Narcolepsy Science Reawakens

    Recent advances in understanding the biological underpinnings of narcolepsy have created a new diagnostic tool and point toward possible future therapies.

    By Ben Harder
  6. 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
  7. 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

  8. Getting an Earful: With gene therapy, ears grow new sensory cells

    Scientists have for the first time coaxed the growth of new sensory cells within the ears of an adult mammal.

    By John Travis
  9. Humans

    Science News of the Year 2000

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2000.

    By Science News
  10. Health & Medicine

    Genes linked to colon cancer take sides

    Cancers on opposite sides of the colon are genetically distinct and should be studied and treated as separate entities.

    By Ben Harder
  11. 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
  12. Humans

    Science News of the Year 2004

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2004.

    By Science News