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New Gene Therapy Successfully Treats Glaucoma

New Gene Therapy Successfully Treats Glaucoma

Gene therapy could improve quality of life for many glaucoma patients. The research team tested a new approach that could provide additional treatment options and benefits. Their findings ar...

Gene Therapy can Improve Treatment of Neurological Diseases

Gene Therapy can Improve Treatment of Neurological Diseases

New study has found a recently developed system for switching on the activity of genes that could improve treatments for a broad range of neurological diseases. They have developed new gene ...

DNA Variants Linked to Neuropsychiatric Disorders

DNA Variants Linked to Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Gene expression levels vary across the developmental stage, cell type, and region in the brain. Genomic variants also contribute to the variation in expression, and some neuropsychiatric dis...

New Method of DNA Synthesis Helps Tackle COVID-19 Pandemic

New Method of DNA Synthesis Helps Tackle COVID-19 Pandemic

DNA synthesis is transforming diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19, and may play a vital role in halting the pandemic. Allie Nawrat, Senior Medical Reporter at GlobalData, asked CEO and ...

CRISPR, Gene Editing Tool to Find Muscular Dystrophy Treatments

CRISPR, Gene Editing Tool to Find Muscular Dystrophy Treatments

CRISPR-Cas9, the gene editing technology helps better understand facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) and explore potential treatments, found new study. FSHD causes muscle wea...

Gene Therapy Prevents Heart Dysfunction in Barth Syndrome

Gene Therapy Prevents Heart Dysfunction in Barth Syndrome

Gene therapy could prevent or reverse cardiac dysfunction in Barth syndrome according to the new research at Boston Children's Hospital. The findings, involving new mouse models of Barth syn...

Gene Therapy may Treat Serious Cardiac Disease

Gene Therapy may Treat Serious Cardiac Disease

Gene therapy may improve cardiac, muscle, and liver function in Danon disease, reports a new study. The findings of the study are published in the journal Science Translational Medicine . ...

Postmenopausal Women With Breast Cancer may Benefit from Genetic Testing

Postmenopausal Women With Breast Cancer may Benefit from Genetic Testing

Postmenopausal women with breast cancer, but no hereditary risk factors may benefit from genetic testing for inherited cancer-associated mutations, revealed a Stanford-led study of more than...

New Repair Mechanism for Alcohol-induced DNA Damage Discovered

New Repair Mechanism for Alcohol-induced DNA Damage Discovered

A new way in which the human body repairs DNA damage caused by a degradation product of alcohol has been identified by researchers of the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) in Utrecht, The Netherland...

E-cigarette Use Linked to DNA Damage

E-cigarette Use Linked to DNA Damage

New study compared biomarkers and metal concentrations in the urine of e-cigarette users, nonsmokers, and cigarette smokers and found that the biomarkers, which reflect exposure, effect, and...

Gene Therapy Prevents Disorders With Alcohol Exposure in ALDH2 Deficiency, Says Study

Gene Therapy Prevents Disorders With Alcohol Exposure in ALDH2 Deficiency, Says Study

Gene therapy to treat aldehyde dehydrogenase type 2 (ALDH2) deficiency helps prevent increased risk for esophageal cancer and osteoporosis linked to chronic alcohol exposure, revealed study....

New Test Detects Kids at Higher Risk for Cystic Fibrosis Liver Disease

New Test Detects Kids at Higher Risk for Cystic Fibrosis Liver Disease

Research-based ultrasound exams help detect kids at high risk of developing cystic fibrosis liver issues, according to a study involving 11 clinical sites in North America, led by Michael Na...

How Hereditary Genetic Testing Effects Impact Breast Cancer Treatment

How Hereditary Genetic Testing Effects Impact Breast Cancer Treatment

An inherited gene can increase risk of developing a second breast cancer, so strategies such as removing a woman’s breasts or ovaries are intended to prevent a future cancer. But women who h...

Gene Therapy Helps Treat Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

Gene Therapy Helps Treat Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

Gene therapy was found to help treat the progressive neurodegenerative disorder chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The study, which demonstrated the effectiveness of direct delive...

New Injection of Gene Therapy Vectors into the Kidney Tested

New Injection of Gene Therapy Vectors into the Kidney Tested

Scientists have discovered a new approach in which three different gene delivery vectors were injected intravenously and directly into the kidneys of mice. The findings of the study are publ...

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