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Health News Posted on May 26, 2012

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Gene Therapy Aids Kids With Rare, Untreatable Brain Disease for the Better
Employing gene transfer methods initiated by University of Florida faculty, Taiwanese doctors have restored some mobility in four children confined to bed with a rare, critical neurological ...

First Gene Therapy Against Aging-associated Decline Successfully Tested
Scientists have proved that mouse lifespan can be boosted by gene therapy. The therapy has been found to be safe and effective in mice. The results are published today in the journal...

Radical Gene Therapy may Help Parkinson�s Patients
In a major boost to a possible treatment for Parkinson�s disease, a British woman was able to write for the first time in 15 years after undergoing a radical gene therapy. Sheila Roy was di...

Pancreas Cancer Treatment Challenges Addressed by Scientists
Pancreatic tumors are the deadliest of cancers as they can spread quickly and are notoriously resistant to treatment. Their resistance to chemotherapy stems in part from a unique biologi...

Gene Therapy Approach to Grow Blood Vessels
Gene delivery approach for PDGF-BB and VEGF molecules may successfully cause regrowth of new blood vessels that can save ischemic limbs, suggests study. "We hope that our findings w...

Brain Cells Change Shape After Gene Therapy
Gene therapy helps regenerate injured brain cells (neurons), reveals study. Alan Harvey, professor of anatomy and physiology at The University of Western Australia, said brain cell ...

Cell Repair in Brain Disorders can be Helped by Gene Therapy
A new study has found that researchers have found a way to help the brain replace damaged nerve cells or neurons. Myelin forms a protective sheath around the axons or fibres of our neuro...

Gene Therapy for Blindness Works in Second Eye
Scientists report a new advance in gene therapy for a rare, inherited form of blindness. The therapy, which had been previously tried in just one eye of 12 people, worked well when in...

Using Pancreas to Taste Fructose
The tongue�s taste receptors aids in telling apart between safe food and spoilt food or toxic. Nevertheless taste receptors are now being discovered in other organs, also. In a study publis...

Retinitis Pigmentosa in Dogs Cured by Gene Therapy Research from Penn Vet & Scheie Eye Inst
Members of a University of Pennsylvania research team have proven that a blinding retinal disease, X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa, or XLRP in dogs can be prevented or even reversed. The d...

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