Sentences with phrase «fibrosis gene therapy trial»

Despite expectations of a rapid breakthrough, no cystic fibrosis gene therapy trial so far has been able to show long - term clinical improvement.

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Regulators in the US could soon be asked to approve a human trial of gene therapy for cystic fibrosis that uses a hybrid of the HIV and Ebola viruses.

«First trial of gene therapy for cystic fibrosis to show beneficial effect on lung function.»

A therapy that replaces the faulty gene responsible for cystic fibrosis in patients» lungs has produced encouraging results in a major UK trial.

One early success story is cystic fibrosis: since the gene was identified in 1989, exceptional progress has been made in devising new experimental treatments, including gene therapy trials.

There are now more than 100 gene therapy clinical trials aimed toward cancer, genetic diseases (such as ADA deficiency, cystic fibrosis and hemophilia A), infectious diseases (including AIDS) and autoimmune diseases (such as rheumatoid arthritis).

WOMEN with cystic fibrosis are to join British gene therapy trials for the first time.

The current U.K. trial is again using fats, or lipids, but the DNA includes a segment called a promoter that should make gene expression last longer, says Eric Alton of Imperial College London, who heads the UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Consortgene expression last longer, says Eric Alton of Imperial College London, who heads the UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy ConsortGene Therapy Consortium.