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1,054 results for: GENE THERAPY

  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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.

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  4. Seek and Destroy: Virus attacks cancer, spares normal cells

    A virus carried by mosquitoes naturally homes in on cancer cells and destroys them.

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  5. Model Mice: Blood reveals signs of pancreatic cancer

    Mice that develop pancreatic cancer show signs of the disease long before malignant tumors arise, just as people with this type of cancer do.

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  6. Let there be light

    New technology illuminates neuronal conversations in the brain

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  7. Humans

    Odds Are, It’s Wrong

    Science fails to face the shortcomings of statistics.

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  8. Stomach’s Sweet Tooth

    Turns out taste is not just for the tongue.

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  9. Fat chance

    Scientists are working out ways to rev up the body’s gut-busting machinery.

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  10. Cancer’s little helpers

    Tiny pieces of RNA may turn cells to the dark side.

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  11. Life

    The unusual suspects

    With no obvious culprit in sight, geneticists do broader sweeps to identify autism’s causes.

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  12. 2010 Science News of the Year: Body & Brain

    Credit: © Bettmann/Corbis Gene therapy moves forward Despite their promise, technologies to correct defective genes have been plagued by safety problems leading to unintended — and sometimes fatal — outcomes. But scientists are inching toward safer, more effective gene therapies that may one day treat a range of diseases, from psychiatric disorders to autoimmune diseases […]

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