Sentences with phrase «treated by gene therapy»

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Editas, a startup based in Cambridge and founded in November 2013, wants to eventually use the technology to treat disease by coming up with therapies that can modify faulty disease - causing genes.

And a third, different kind of gene therapy from Spark Therapeutics — to treat a rare inherited form of blindness — is likely to be approved by the end of 2017, too, making this year a landmark for treatments that manipulate the body's own biological mechanisms in novel new ways to fight deadly diseases.

Spark, for its part, won a unanimous FDA panel backing for its own gene therapy to treat an inherited disorder that leaves young patients blind by repairing the havoc wreaked by defective genes.

«Pancreatitis reduced by nearly 50 % after gene therapy to treat lipoprotein lipase deficiency.»

The blood sugar of the diabetic mice were made normal by the gene - therapy - treated human islets on the right.

Treating disease by providing needed genes remains a compelling idea, but clinical and basic researchers still have much to do before gene therapy can live up to its promise

Given that artificial synthetic siRNAs can transfer through placenta, we can try to use gene therapy to treat fetal disease by maternal administration.»

Recent advances «give us reasonable hope that gene therapy will enter the armamentarium» to treat genetic blood disorders, some cancers, and inherited diseases, Fischer said, adding: «We might be very close to approval by regulatory authorities.»

«We found that gene therapy blocked progressive hearing loss and improved hearing in treated mice by nearly four orders of magnitude compared to untreated sibling controls,» said Alagramam.

In the case of breast cancer driven by overexpression of the HER2 gene, up to 50 percent of patients treated with targeted therapies eventually develop brain metastases, which are inevitably fatal.

Recently published in the journal Oncotarget, this new study is the most recent in a long line of studies led by Paul B. Fisher, M.Ph., Ph.D., investigating the use of viral gene therapy to treat a variety of cancers.

In a first for gene therapy, researchers have successfully treated cancer patients by genetically modifying their immune cells to attack tumors.

B could work as a potential vector for gene therapy, a technique that treats diseases by introducing new genes into cells or by replacing or inactivating genes already there.

Shoemaker has been studying gene therapy as a novel way to treat diseases such as botulism, a rare but serious paralytic illness caused by a nerve toxin that is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.

• Combining stem cells with gene therapy, an international collaboration announced the success of a pilot study to treat X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), a fatal brain disease caused by a mutation of the gene coding for the ALD protein.

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Hot on the heels of last weeks report of the successful use of gene therapy to treat the eye disease Leber's congenital amaurosis comes a report that scientists lead by Nathalie Cartier and Patrick Aubourg of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research have combined gene therapy and stem cell medicine to successfully... Continue reading Gene therapy on the bgene therapy to treat the eye disease Leber's congenital amaurosis comes a report that scientists lead by Nathalie Cartier and Patrick Aubourg of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research have combined gene therapy and stem cell medicine to successfully... Continue reading Gene therapy on the bgene therapy and stem cell medicine to successfully... Continue reading Gene therapy on the bGene therapy on the brain

Study using disabled form of HIV in gene therapy wins highest award from Clinical Research Forum; others cited for advances revealing damage caused by long - term cortisone shots to treat arthritic knees; and gene replacement therapy for infants with deadly neuromuscular disease

Yesterday a team of University of Pennsylvania researchers — led by Dr Pablo Tebas, Professor Carl June, and Dr Bruce Levine — announced the successful conclusion of a clinical trial to evaluate the safety of a new gene therapy technique for treating HIV.

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By identifying and treating gene mutations in dogs, his research moves us closer to gene therapy that could one day be used to manage and prevent glaucoma in humans.

Mice treated four days after birth had a median survival of 41 days; by comparison, most mice treated immediately after birth lived for 100 days or longer6, a finding that mirrors earlier gene therapy studies7.

This approach may also be applicable to a number of rare genetic diseases caused by splicing defects, including ataxia telangiectasia, congenital disorder of glycosylation, and Niemann - Pick disease type C. Although the three DMD studies referenced here represent a great step forward for CRISPR gene therapy, it's important to realize that DMD is a simpler case than other genetic diseases we'd like to treat with CRISPR.

4) Gene therapy is a set of methods that uses genes to treat or prevent disease by inserting genes into a patient's cells.