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Common antibacterial treatment linked to sensorineural hearing loss in cystic fibrosis patients
Jul 01, 2009 |
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An otherwise effective treatment for cystic fibrosis places patients at a high risk of sensorineural hearing loss, according to new research published in the July edition of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
Gaza strip families give first clue to condition causing blindness and tooth decay
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Scientists studying an inherited condition resulting in blindness and crumbling teeth have found a single defective gene can affect both eye function and normal tooth development.
Research on pigs may lead to answers for human male infertility
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Feb 09, 2009 |
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In the late 1990s the Finnish Yorkshire pig population was threatened by a genetic defect which spread at an alarming rate and led to infertility. The defective KPL2 gene in porcine chromosome 16 caused pig spermatozoa to ...
Gene therapy demonstrates benefit in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Researchers have reported the first clinical evidence that gene therapy reduces symptoms in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, an important milestone for this promising treatment which has endured a sometimes turbulent past. ...
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New research findings may enable earlier diagnosis of uterine cancer
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Cancer of the uterus (womb) is the commonest gynaecological malignancy in the West. Research carried out at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has now identified a gene that may simplify future diagnosis.
Couples to test embryos for cancer gene
Apr 28, 2007 |
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Two British couples want to use an embryo selection technique to eradicate a breast cancer gene that runs in their families.
Slimming gene regulates body fat
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of Bonn, Germany, have discovered a previously unknown fruit fly gene that controls the metabolism of fat. Larvae in which this gene is defective lose their entire fat reserves. Therefore the ...
Heart attack risk from smoking due to genetics
Dec 19, 2007 |
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Heart attacks among cigarette smokers may have less to do with tobacco than genetics. A common defect in a gene controlling cholesterol metabolism boosts smokers’ risk of an early heart attack, according to a new study in ...
New drug hope for cystic fibrosis patients
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Sep 09, 2008 |
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A new drug therapy may represent a tremendous step forward in the treatment of some 70,000 cystic fibrosis (CF) patients worldwide, Dr David Sheppard from the University of Bristol will tell an audience at the BA Festival ...
DNA-based medicine achieves a breakthrough
Apr 03, 2006 |
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A German-led multinational team of scientists is reporting a breakthrough in using gene therapy to cure two men with chronic glaucomatous disease.
Researchers discover mechanism of insulin production that can lead to better treatment for diabetes
Nov 12, 2009 |
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How a specific gene within the pancreas affects secretion of insulin has been discovered by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in collaboration with Japanese and American universities. Their ...
New research may help to design better gene therapy vectors
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Oct 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research published by scientists from the University of Reading may offer an insight into ways of making safer and more specific gene therapy vectors. The research, published in the journal Nature Structural an ...
Scientists find new agent to fight genetic disorders -- Zorro-Locked Nucleic Acid
Apr 30, 2007 |
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A study to appear in the June 2007 issue of The FASEB Journal describes a new agent, called "Zorro-LNA," which has the potential to stop genetic disorders in their tracks. In the study, researchers from the Karolinska Institute ...
First gene therapy for heart failure offered at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia
Jun 18, 2008 |
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[B]NYC's only medical center offering promising therapy as part of CUPID clinical trial[/B] Could injecting a gene into a patient with severe heart failure reverse their disabling and life-threatening condition? Physician-scientists are ...
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