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1,080 results for: GENE THERAPY

  1. Health & Medicine

    With its burning grip, shingles can do lasting damage

    Varicella zoster virus, which causes chickenpox and shingles, may instigate several other problems.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  2. Genetics

    Human gene editing therapies are OK in certain cases, panel advises

    A panel of experts says clinical gene editing to correct and prevent human disease should move forward, but enhancements should not be allowed.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Science & Society

    We’ll be watching the skies, plus a lot more, this year

    Acting Editor in Chief Elizabeth Quill predicts 2018 could be a year full of important space discoveries.

    By Elizabeth Quill
  4. Health & Medicine

    Genetic risk of getting second cancer tallied for pediatric survivors

    Inherited mutations, not only treatment, affect the chances that a childhood cancer survivor will develop a second cancer later in life.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  5. Genetics

    Double-duty DNA plays a role in birth and death

    Coronary artery disease may be the price humans pay for improved fertility.

    By Maria Temming
  6. Health & Medicine

    Therapy flags DNA typos to rev cancer-fighting T cells

    Genetic tests help identify cancer patients who will benefit from immune therapy.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  7. Health & Medicine

    Common drugs help reverse signs of fetal alcohol syndrome in rats

    A thyroid hormone and a blood sugar drug affect levels of a hormone needed for brain development, study in rats shows.

    By Laurel Hamers
  8. Genetics

    Gene editing of human embryos yields early results

    Gene editing in embryos has started in labs, but isn’t ready for the clinic.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  9. Life

    Lena Pernas sees parasitic infection as a kind of Hunger Games

    In studies of Toxoplasma, parasitologist Lena Pernas has reframed infection as a battle between invader and a cell’s mitochondria.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  10. Genetics

    Protective genetic variant may offer a path to future autoimmune therapies

    A natural tweak in the TYK2 protein strikes a balance between weak and overactive immune systems.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  11. Neuroscience

    Brain gains seen in elderly mice injected with human umbilical cord plasma

    Plasma from human umbilical cord blood refreshes aspects of learning and memory in mice.

    By Laura Sanders
  12. Science & Society

    Science journalists don’t use the science of ‘nudge’

    Acting Editor in Chief Elizabeth Quill discusses the mission of science journalists.

    By Elizabeth Quill