Sentences with phrase «new gene therapy approach»

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Researchers at the 12th International Neuroscience Winter Conference will explore, among other hot topics in neuroscience, the neurobiology of courtship, new gene therapy approaches in Parkinson's disease, the role of sleep in neuropsychiatric disorders and breakthroughs in brain repair.

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So far, its trials have shown it can improve outcomes when used alongside other multiple myeloma drugs and that could offer it some insulation if the market gets disrupted by new treatment approaches, such as gene therapy.

Gene therapy delivered to a specific part of the brain reverses symptoms of depression in a mouse model of the disease — potentially laying the groundwork for a new approach to treating severe cases of human depression in which drugs are ineffective.

«If this approach works in humans, it will really change the conversation that providers have with patients,» Scadden said, especially for those «who have these underlying genetic disorders and for who the new gene - editing and gene therapy techniques are being developed.»

The benefit of this approach over other gene therapy techniques is that the new method can permanently correct the «defect» in a gene rather than just transiently adding a «functional» one, said Dr. Eric Olson, Director of the Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine at UT Southwestern and Chairman of Molecular Biology.

Despite this new direction for identifying targets for pharmaceutical interventions against RP, the researchers underscore that gene therapy still has great potential and possible benefits, and they are actively pursuing efforts with this approach for several forms of RP.

With the data provided by the FLI researchers, scientists around the world may now set targeted mutations to investigate the relevance of single genes for aging, in order to better understand regulating mechanisms and, eventually, develop new approaches for therapy or prevention of aging - related diseases.

«This approach is a lot more straightforward than conventional gene therapy,» Kole told New Scientist.

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New research out of the University of Michigan supports combining two approaches to fight back against gliomas: attacking the tumor with gene therapy while enhancing the immune system's ability to fight it, too.

Gene therapy has the potential to provide reconstructive surgeons with a new approach to solving one of their most difficult problems: the lack of adequate tissues to correct deformities of a specific area or structure.

The new findings, published online in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, show that combining rapamycin with a gene therapy approach enhanced the animals» ability to summon immune cells called CD8 + T cells to kill tumor cells directly.

At a time when gene therapy has been revived as a potent form of cancer treatment, a new approach would use nanoparticles, rather than viruses, to deliver strands of DNA or RNA to tumors.

Sangamo Biosciences (Nasdaq: SGMO, US) The company is pioneering a new sophisticated approach for treatment of HIV patients by cell gene therapy.

The therapy involves injection of new genes directly into a patient's tumor tissue, a radical new approach to battling cancer and other disorders.

«Our breakthrough findings in psoriasis underscore the unique power of our population approach for tackling the genetics of just about any common condition, and we hope to push this program forward to identify the gene involved as well as targets for the development of new therapies,» said Dr. Kari Stefansson, CEO of deCODE genetics.

The idea there is that by identifying genes that cause, or contribute to glaucoma, and understanding what the protein products of those genes do, we can use new techniques to target those proteins to develop therapies that actually approach the actual disease mechanisms that cause the disease.

Now that Spark has grown and its therapy for the RPE65 gene is approaching an FDA decision, she says, the company is expanding its portfolio, with programs directed at new targets.

But now a new approach promises to solve the problem by sidestepping the immune system altogether, instead using gene therapy to produce immune molecules that neutralize the virus.

Marina Figueiredo, MS Advisors: Dr. Michael Murtaugh & Dr. Jody Lulich Thesis: Gene therapy: A new approach for preventing calcium oxalate stones Subsequent Position: RePORT Tuberculosis Program Coordinator, Vanderbilt University