News tagged with viral vector
Anti-aging gene linked to high blood pressure
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have shown the first link between a newly discovered anti-aging gene and high blood pressure. The results, which appear this month in the journal ...
Vaporized viral vector shows promise in anti-cancer gene therapy
Jun 08, 2009 |
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A new lung cancer therapy employing a vaporized viral vector to deliver a cancer-inhibiting molecule directly to lung tissue shows early promise in mouse trials, according to researchers at the Ministry of Education, Science ...
Scientists excise vector, exotic genes from induced stem cells
Mar 26, 2009 |
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A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers reports that it has created induced human pluripotent stem (iPS) cells completely free of viral vectors and exotic genes.
Human beta cells can be easily induced to replicate
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have successfully induced human insulin-producing cells, known as beta cells, to replicate robustly in a living animal, as well as in the lab. The discovery not ...
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Virus used to create experimental HIV vaccines directly impairs the immune response
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Leading efforts to create an HIV vaccine have hinged on the use of viruses as carriers for selected elements of the HIV virus. Recently, however, evidence has emerged that some of these so-called viral vector systems may ...
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 ...
Researcher eliminates viral vector in stem cell reprogramming
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Shinya Yamanaka MD, PhD, of Kyoto University and the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) has taken another step forward in improving the possibilities for the practical application of induced pluripotent ...
Adenoviral vector specifically targeted to EphA2 receptor in pancreatic cancer cells
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with poor prognosis. This warrants the development of novel therapies including gene therapy. However, clinical studies have demonstrated poor efficacy of adenoviral gene therapy ...
In blood vessel stents, innovative materials allow better control, delivery of gene therapy
Apr 15, 2008 |
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Before gene therapy becomes practical for treating human diseases, researchers must master the details of safe and effective delivery. Cardiology researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have advanced delivery ...
Discovery could lead to better rice yields
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Feb 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Building on plant virus research started more than 20 years ago, a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis and his a colleague at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis ...
Whitefly spreads emerging plant viruses
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Jan 18, 2007 |
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A tiny whitefly is responsible for spreading a group of plant viruses that cause devastating disease on food, fiber, and ornamental crops, say plant pathologists with The American Phytopathological Society (APS).
Converting adult somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells using a single virus
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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A Boston University School of Medicine-led research team has discovered a more efficient way to create induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells, derived from mouse fibroblasts, by using a single virus vector instead of multiple ...
New study shows that therapeutic gene expression can be sustainable for 1 year
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Researchers at the Board of Governors Gene Therapeutics Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have shown for the first time that it is possible to sustain therapeutic gene expression in the central nervous system ...
Control of mosquito vectors of malaria may be enhanced by a new method of biocontrol
Oct 02, 2009 |
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Biopesticides containing a fungus that is pathogenic to mosquitoes may be an effective means of reducing malaria transmission, particularly if used in combination with insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs), according to a modelling ...
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