http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered a new gene therapy that may prevent the progression of emphysema. The study, which appears on-line in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, describes a method to express therapeutic genes in lung tissue for a lifetime after only a single treatment. http://www.physorg.com/news180638416.html Medicine & Health Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:30:04 EST news180638416 (PhysOrg.com) -- Chronic wounds, including venous leg ulcers which are caused by poor circulation in the veins of the legs, are difficult and expensive to treat. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have developed the first targeted, short-term delivery method using gene transfer technology to effectively treat venous leg ulcers. http://www.physorg.com/news179085687.html Medicine & Health Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:30:01 EST news179085687 (PhysOrg.com) -- UQ (University of Queensland) researchers are leading green energy technology with confirmation of the world`s first transgenic sweet sorghum plants. http://www.physorg.com/news177018198.html Biology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:20:04 EST news177018198 A Michigan hospital is embarking on a research study for advanced Parkinson's disease using a state-of-the-art treatment called gene transfer. http://www.physorg.com/news174061732.html Medicine & Health Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:37:38 EST news174061732 Scientists from the Universities of Michigan and Minnesota show in a research report published online in the FASEB Journal that gene therapy may be used to improve an ailing heart's ability to contract properly. In addition to showing gene therapy's potential for reversing the course of heart failure, it also offers a tantalizing glimpse of a day when "closed heart surgery" via gene therapy is as commonly prescribed as today's cocktail of drugs. http://www.physorg.com/news173965249.html Medicine & Health Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:10:02 EST news173965249 A research team may have broken the stubborn impasse that has frustrated the invention of an effective HIV vaccine, by using an approach that bypasses the usual path followed by vaccine developers. By using gene transfer technology that produces molecules that block infection, the scientists protected monkeys from infection by a virus closely related to HIV -the simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV -that causes AIDS in rhesus monkeys. http://www.physorg.com/news161786789.html Medicine & Health Sun, 17 May 2009 13:47:15 EST news161786789 Most aphids host mutualistic bacteria, Buchnera aphidicola, which live inside specialized cells called bacteriocytes. Buchnera are vital to the aphids well being as they provide essential amino acids that are scarce in its diet. Now research published in the open access journal BMC Biology suggests that the aphids' ability to host Buchnera depends on genes they acquired from yet another species of bacteria via lateral gene transfer (LGT). http://www.physorg.com/news155845431.html Biology Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:25:01 EST news155845431 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new UCLA AIDS Institute study has found that gene therapy can be developed as a safe and active technique to combat HIV. http://www.physorg.com/news154112027.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:54:27 EST news154112027 Researchers from the Children's Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have created a device that significantly decreases the time needed to produce genetically manipulated T cells in preclinical tests for leukemia. http://www.physorg.com/news153756392.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:07:01 EST news153756392 (PhysOrg.com) -- In On The Origin of Species, Darwin used the image of a tree of life to illustrate how species evolve, one from another. Even today, branches sprouting from lower branches (representing ancestors) is how many people view the evolution of species. http://www.physorg.com/news152274071.html Biology Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:21:49 EST news152274071 It's as simple as A, T, G, C. Northwestern University scientists have exploited the Watson-Crick base pairing of DNA to provide a defensive tool that could be used to fight the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria -- one of the world's most pressing public health problems. http://www.physorg.com/news148832575.html Biology Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:22:55 EST news148832575 (PhysOrg.com) -- Photosynthesis generates the oxygen needed for life on earth as well as the biomass for food and biofuel production. The process is driven by the absorption of the sun`s energy by tiny green "bodies" called chloroplasts. The "solar-powered" sea slug Elysia chlorotica has fascinated scientists for years because of its ability to retain "stolen" chloroplasts and carry out photosynthesis as if it was a plant. http://www.physorg.com/news146246096.html Biology Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:54:56 EST news146246096 It sounds like a science fiction movie: A killer contagion threatens the Earth, but scientists save the day with a designer drug that forces the virus to mutate itself out of existence. The killer disease? Still a fiction. The drug? It could become a reality thanks to a new study by Rice University bioengineers. http://www.physorg.com/news145544680.html Physics Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:04:40 EST news145544680 This week, University of Michigan scientists will begin a phase 1 clinical trial for the treatment of cancer-related pain, using a novel gene transfer vector injected into the skin to deliver a pain-relieving gene to the nervous system. http://www.physorg.com/news140692555.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:15:55 EST news140692555