News tagged with therapeutic gene
Finding the ZIP-code for gene therapy: Scientists imitate viruses to deliver therapeutic genes
Aug 31, 2009 |
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A research report featured on the cover of the September 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal describes how Australian scientists developed a new gene therapy vector that uses the same machinery that viruses use to transp ...
Moving gene therapy forward with mobile DNA
May 03, 2009 |
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Gene therapy is the introduction of genetic material into a patient's cells resulting in a cure or a therapeutic effect. In recent years, it has been shown that gene therapy is a promising technology to treat or even cure ...
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A new take on growth factor signaling in tamoxifen resistance
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Differences in growth factor (GF) signaling may cause the poor prognosis in some breast cancer cases. A new study, published in the open access journal BMC Medical Genomics, suggests that some estrogen receptor-positive breast ...
Gene implicated in stress-induced high blood pressure
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Do stressful situations make your blood pressure rise? If so, your phosducin gene could be to blame according to a team of researchers, at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, ...
Better immune defense against anthrax
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Scientists discover a gene in anthrax-causing bacteria may help defend against this form of bio-warfare.
Gene therapy technique slows ALD brain disease
Nov 05, 2009 |
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A strategy that combines gene therapy with blood stem cell therapy may be a useful tool for treating a fatal brain disease, French researchers have found. These findings appear in the 6 November 2009 issue ...
Researchers find gene that could lead to new therapies for bone marrow disease
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers are one step closer to finding new ways to treat Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), a bone marrow disease that strikes up to 15,000 people each year in the United States, and ...
Which is promising as therapeutic targets in patients with biliary tract cancer? EGFR or HER2?
Oct 16, 2009 |
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A research team from Germany analyzed the pathogenetic role and potential clinical usefulness of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) in patients with advanced ...
Study shows promise for new cancer-stopping therapy
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital and Johns Hopkins University have discovered that delivering a small molecule that is highly expressed in normal tissues but lost in diseased cells can result in tumor suppression.
Could therapeutic vaccines treat hard to beat breast cancers?
Jul 27, 2009 |
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A comprehensive analysis of nearly 1,600 tumor samples has found that CT-X genes are expressed in nearly half the breast cancers that lack the estrogen receptor (ER). CT-X gene products are the targets of therapeutic cancer ...
Gene knockout may cheer up mice
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Removing the PKCI/HINT1 gene from mice has an anti-depressant-like and anxiolytic-like effect. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience applied a battery of behavioral tests to the PKCI/HINT1 knocko ...
STAT3 protein found to play a key role in cancer
Jun 25, 2009 |
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A protein called STAT3 has been found to play a fundamental role in converting normal cells to cancerous cells, according to a new study led by David E. Levy, Ph.D., professor of pathology and microbiology at NYU Langone ...
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