Sentences with phrase «type of gene therapy»

That has been in part a result of how much response efficacy that has been achieved with some patients in addition to work with different types of gene therapy applications and coupling those with cell therapy advancements.

The birth of two monkeys in China provides hope that a new type of gene therapy may one day help correct genetic defects in people.

Now a novel type of gene therapy described in the November 23 issue of the journal Nature offers hope.

Unlike most types of gene therapy, a longstanding approach that aims to alter only adult human tissues that die with the patient, the Crispr technique could be used to change human eggs, sperm and early embryos, and such alterations would be inherited by the patient's children.

Researchers writing in the journal Science point to a few different types of gene therapy that could get hijacked for athletics instead of medical uses, like the treatment of obesity, diabetes or muscle disease.

Sweeney has now begun developing and testing another type of gene therapy in dogs and comparing its effects to those of IGF - 1.

The new method may make some types of gene therapy easier and could be a boon for researchers hoping to control gene activity in animals, scientists say.

The new method may make some types of gene therapy easier...

Researchers at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, have used a type of gene therapy to treat mice with a disease that mimics multiple sclerosis (MS).

In this type of gene therapy, scientists use retroviruses, of which HIV is an example.

«In its original review of these studies, the UK Gene Therapy Advisory Committee recognised the possibility of cancer occurring as a result of this type of gene therapy,» says Norman Nevin, GTAC's chairman.

RNAi is a type of gene therapy that «silences» genes by disrupting the protein - making process.