Sentences with phrase «severe inherited diseases»

It is a far more serious situation if there is only one life - shortening inherited disease in a breed, but nearly all of the dogs of that breed either carry the disease gene or show symptoms of it, than if there are several less severe inherited diseases in the breed and the disease producing genes are rare for all of these diseases.

For the first time, researchers have infused a person's blood with gene - editing tools, aiming to treat his severe inherited disease, The Associated Press (AP) reported today.

Not exact matches

Though this research focused on the form of the disease called Leber congenital amaurosis 2, or LCA2, the scientists and engineers involved in the study believe the technology holds promise for other forms of LCA as well as other inherited diseases that lead to severe vision loss or blindness.

People with the rare inherited disease also have frequent nosebleeds, as many as seven a day, that can become so severe that patients require skin grafts in their noses or even more desperate measures to lead normal lives.

GM1 gangliosidosis, or Landing disease, is a rare inherited neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorder characterized by severe cognitive and motor developmental delays resulting in the death of most patients at a very young age.

Advanced Cell Technology, of Marlborough, Mass., said it would test its stem cell therapy on 12 adults with severe vision loss caused by Stargardt's, an inherited disease.

Cataracts can also be caused by uveitis (internal eye inflammation), severe trauma, or inherited retinal diseases like Progressive Retinal Atrophy.

Canine hip dysplasia is a severe, inherited joint disease of dogs that reveals itself in a progressive lameness associated with arthritis and looseness of both hip joints that make running, walking, and even standing difficult.

The most serious disease in Rhodesian Ridgeback puppies (with about a 5 % incidence) is a severe inherited skin deformity called dermoid sinus.

Except in cases where severe joint trauma is associated with OCD, the disease should be presumed to be inherited.

As well as the respiratory problems these animals suffer severe dental problems because their jaws and teeth are deformed, they may struggle to pick up and eat food, have exposed eyes that are prone to injury, skin folds on their face that cause inflammation, infection and sometimes trauma to their eyes, spinal problems in the dogs bred for a curly tail as well as inherited diseases due to the narrow gene pool.

Alachua, Fla. - based AGTC is a clinical - stage biotechnology company that uses its proprietary gene therapy platform to develop products designed to transform the lives of patients with severe inherited orphan diseases in ophthalmology.