News tagged with gene transfer
Scientist Unlocking the Secrets of Sea Slug that Lives Like a Plant
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Nov 18, 2008 |
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(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 ...
Forced evolution: Can we mutate viruses to death?
Nov 10, 2008 |
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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. ...
Darwin's Tree of Life May Be More Like a Thicket
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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(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 ancest ...
Novel vaccine approach offers hope in fight against HIV
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May 17, 2009 |
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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 therapy for chronic pain gets first test in people
Sep 15, 2008 |
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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 ...
Michigan hospital launches gene therapy study for Parkinson's disease
Oct 06, 2009 |
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A Michigan hospital is embarking on a research study for advanced Parkinson's disease using a state-of-the-art treatment called gene transfer.
Aphids borrowed bacterial genes to play host
Mar 09, 2009 |
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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 ...
Blocking the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria
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Dec 18, 2008 |
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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 ...
Gene therapy makes mice breath easier
Dec 21, 2009 |
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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, descri ...
Gene therapy shows promise as weapon against HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 17, 2009 |
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(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.
Device aims to decrease wait period for patients needing immunotherapy
Feb 13, 2009 |
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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 ...
And the beat goes on: Scientists jump-start the heart by gene transfer
Oct 05, 2009 |
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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 additi ...
Researchers produce world’s first transgenic sweet sorghum
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ (University of Queensland) researchers are leading green energy technology with confirmation of the world’s first transgenic sweet sorghum plants.
Gene Therapy Hastens Healing Process in Chronic Leg Ulcers
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(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 ...
