Gene Therapy

Vision-Restoring Gene Therapy Also Strengthens Visual Processing Pathways in Brain

Surprisingly rapid regrowth of unused brain connections after decades of near blindness Since 2007, clinical

Nearly indestructible virus yields tool to treat diseases

How it lives in boiling acid offers template for delivering gene therapy By unlocking the

A Major New Approach to Gene Therapy

Bioengineers at The University of Texas at Dallas have created a novel gene-delivery system that

New therapy holds promise for restoring vision

A new genetic therapy not only helped blind mice regain enough light sensitivity to distinguish

This shows regenerated auditory nerves after gene therapy (top) compared with no treatment (below). Credit: UNSW Translational Neuroscience Facility
Hearing quality restored with bionic ear technology used for gene therapy

Existing cochlear technology used in a new way to re-grow auditory nerves Researchers at UNSW

An artistic rendering of human stem cells on the polymer scaffolds. Photo courtesy of Charles Gersbach and Farshid Guilak, Duke University
Gene Therapy Might Grow Replacement Tissue Inside the Body

Duke researchers use gene therapy to direct stem cells into becoming new cartilage on a

Fixing a body’s broken genes is becoming possible

IT SOUNDS like science fiction, and for years it seemed as though it was just

Inhalable Gene Therapy May Help Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Patients

The deadly condition known as pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), which afflicts up to 150,000 Americans

New Gene Therapy Shows Broad Protection in Animal Models to Pandemic Flu Strains, including the Deadly 1918 Spanish Influenza

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania have developed a new gene therapy to