Sentences with phrase «by gene therapy»

Two French babies who were born with a rare immune deficiency have apparently been cured by gene therapy.
So that almost all diseases could be treated by gene therapy eventually.
While there, I published one of the first papers demonstrating rescue of retinal degeneration by gene therapy.
Since then, he has begun giving university lectures about the importance of exercising caution as a clinical scientist, especially when it comes to stem cells, which today have the cachet once held by gene therapy.
That enzyme turned out to be defective in the short - lived strain of roundworms, but it worked fine in normal worms and in strains rescued by gene therapy.
Based on these promising results, work has begun on the necessary developments to propose to patients suffering from Friedreich's ataxia and presenting a progressive cardiomyopathy a treatment by gene therapy.
«Our next step is to take the gene which codes for tyrosinase, and put this into liposomes to see if we can influence hair colour by gene therapy,» says Hoffman.
Mice in which telomeres have been lengthened by gene therapy tended to live longer in some studies than mice that didn't get the treatment.
In previous work, Dr. Ryosei Minoda, head of the Department of Otolaryngology at Kumamoto General Hospital, reported that hearing loss was restored by gene therapy to the inner ear of Connexin 30 deficient fetal mice.
Whereas Humira alone could have caused the immune suppression, another possibility is that Humira combined with the TNF - α blocker encoded by the gene therapy pushed Mohr over the edge.
Researchers are working on the manipulation of these microRNAs by gene therapy to normalize these corneas.
THE PROSPECT of curing some diseases by gene therapy is coming closer, with the publication this month of three reports of possible ways of treating cancer, immune deficiency and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Yet, their efforts to rescue cone function by gene therapy in mid-course LCA stages failed: when applied to 35 - day old Rpe65 - deficient mice, gene therapy restores rod function only (Pang et al. 2010).
None of the offspring tested positive for the presence of the normal KL2 gene carried by the gene therapy vector.
Improving EphB2 levels in such mice by gene therapy completely fixed their memory problems.
ORDINARY cells from people with a genetic disease can be «fixed» by gene therapy and then reprogrammed to be stem cells that will produce a limitless supply of defect - free cells.
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