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1,064 results for: GENE THERAPY

  1. Stomach’s Sweet Tooth

    Turns out taste is not just for the tongue.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg

  2. Fat chance

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

    By Laura Beil

  3. Cancer’s little helpers

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

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  4. Life

    The unusual suspects

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

    By Susan Gaidos

  5. 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 […]

    By Science News

  6. Physicists join immune fight

    Principles beyond biology may help explain how the body battles infection.

    By Susan Gaidos

  7. Worming Your Way to Better Health

    To battle autoimmune disease and allergy, scientists tune in to the tricks of parasites.

    By Nathan Seppa

  8. Cerebral Delights

    The amygdala, a part of the brain known for its role in fear, also helps people spot rewards — and go after them.

    By Susan Gaidos

  9. Crushing Cancer’s Defenses

    Vaccine approval offers hope while other armies muster.

    By Daniel Strain
  10. Math

    Systems biology tunes in to cancer networks

    If cable TV systems had a channel called The Cancer Network, doctors would be wise to tune in. But there’s no such channel. So for now, they’ll just have to read articles in scientific journals that publish papers on the science of networks. Scientists in the new field of systems biology have made a lot […]

    By Tom Siegfried

  11. Back from the Brink

    Psychological and supportive programs for schizophrenia sufferers, often used in combination with antipsychotic drugs, are attracting increasing research interest in the United States and Europe.

    By Bruce Bower
  12. Health & Medicine

    Coming to Terms with Death

    Some newly recognized forms of cell death might be harnessed to aid people with cancer and other serious diseases.

    By Janet Raloff