New Technology Makes Cancer Tumors Eliminate Themselves
A new technology developed by University of Zurich researchers enables the body to produce therapeutic agents on demand at the exact location where they are…
Gene Therapy
Experimental Gene Therapy Cures Children Born Without an Immune System in Clinical Trials
Study shows treatment developed by international team restored immune function in more than 95% of patients in three clinical trials. An experimental form of gene…
Genetic Copycatchers Detect Efficient and Precise CRISPR Editing in a Living Organism
Proof-of-principle research shows that genes can be accurately edited in cells throughout the body. Researchers at the University of California San Diego have laid the…
Genetic Engineering 2.0: An On-Off Switch for Gene Editing
New, reversible CRISPR method can control gene expression while leaving underlying DNA sequence unchanged. Over the past decade, the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system has revolutionized…
Revolutionary Research: Scientists Create First Model of an Early Human Embryo From Skin Cells
For first time, fibroblast-derived model of early embryo will allow extensive study into causes of very early miscarriage and effects of toxins and drugs on…
DNA Origami Used to Monitor CRISPR Gene Targeting
CRISPR gene editing has transformed research, but it is not perfect, and can sometimes target unintended genes. To watch CRISPR enzymes respond to different genes,…
Winner-Takes-All Synthetic Gene Circuit Process Opens New Pathways to Treat Cancer and Other Diseases
Division of synthetic gene circuit workloads will make therapy more effective. A new process for inserting synthetic gene circuits into host cells, developed by a…
Genetic Mutation Discovery Offers Hope for Effective Autism Drugs
Hebrew University identifies genetic mutation associated with autism, offering hope for effective therapeutics. Recent years have provided substantial research displaying the effect of genetic mutations…
Scientists Develop New Gene Therapy Strategy to Delay Aging and Extend Lifespan
Cellular senescence, a state of permanent growth arrest, has emerged as a hallmark and fundamental driver of organismal aging. It is regulated by both genetic…
Neuroscientists Link Brain Cancer to Tissue Healing
Increase of inflammation markers in tumor-initiating cells believed to be a response to brain injury. The healing process that follows a brain injury could spur…
Massive Analysis Reveals New COVID-19 Related Genes – Helpful and Harmful
Researchers at Yale University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard screened hundreds of millions of cells exposed to the COVID-19 and MERS viruses…
Hundreds of In Vitro Brains Were Grown in a Lab in Italy – Here’s Why
Organoids (In Vitro Brains) to Study Pediatric Brain Tumors A large-scale production of in vitro tumors could make it possible to perform large drug screenings…
Breakthrough in Search For Safer, Easier Way to Deliver Vision-Saving Gene Therapy to The Retina
In experiments with rats, pigs and monkeys, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have developed a way to deliver sight-saving gene therapy to the retina. If proved…
Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Successfully Treat Mitochondrial Diseases
Mitochondrial disease is now thought to be the second most commonly diagnosed genetic disease worldwide, and, unfortunately, there are still no proven treatment strategies for…
Gene Therapy Gives Ovarian Cancer Patients Hope
A team of researchers from Harvard and Mass General Hospital has found a gene therapy that delivers a protein which suppresses the development of female…
MIT Researchers Reverse a Rare Liver Disorder in Mice
In a newly published study, MIT researchers show that a new gene-editing technique, known as CRISPR, can reverse a rare liver disorder caused by a…
Telomerase Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Lifespan by 24%
Inducing cells to express telomerase, the enzyme which is supposed to slow down the metabolic clock, has enabled researchers boost the lifespan of mouse by…
Dutch Company Will Start Selling Gene Therapy Treatment in 2013
A Dutch company, uniQure, states that it will start selling the first human gene therapy to be approved in the West by mid-2013. They expect…