How it lives in boiling acid offers template for delivering gene therapy By unlocking the secrets of a bizarre virus that survives in nearly boiling acid, scientists at the University of Vir... Read more
Bioengineers at The University of Texas at Dallas have created a novel gene-delivery system that shuttles a gene into a cell, but only for a temporary stay, providing a potential new gene-th... Read more
A new genetic therapy not only helped blind mice regain enough light sensitivity to distinguish flashing from non-flashing lights, but also restored light response to the retinas of dogs, se... Read more
Existing cochlear technology used in a new way to re-grow auditory nerves Researchers at UNSW Australia have for the first time used electrical pulses delivered from a cochlear implant to de... Read more
Duke researchers use gene therapy to direct stem cells into becoming new cartilage on a synthetic scaffold even after implantation into a living body By combining a synthetic scaffolding mat... Read more
IT SOUNDS like science fiction, and for years it seemed as though it was just that: fiction. But the idea of gene therapy—introducing copies of healthy genes into people who lack them, to tr... Read more
The deadly condition known as pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), which afflicts up to 150,000 Americans each year, may be reversible by using an inhalable gene therapy The deadly conditi... Read more
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania have developed a new gene therapy to thwart a potential influenza pandemic. Specifically, investigators in the Gene... Read more
