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Genetic Testing of Diseases

Genetic testing helps to confirm a genetic condition in an individual and involves q complex laboratory techniques

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Nerve Regeneration can be Promoted Through Gene Therapy

Nerve Regeneration can be Promoted Through Gene Therapy

Treatment coupled with gene therapy helps in the fast recovery after nerve damage, reveals a new study. Nerve cells and nerve fibers over a long distance regenerated after a surgical repair ...

Parkinson's Drug Side Effect Can Now Be Reversed With Gene Therapy

Parkinson's Drug Side Effect Can Now Be Reversed With Gene Therapy

Levodopa drug-induced side effect called dyskinesia can now be reduced or possibly reversed by a new gene therapy method. This side-effect results in the involuntary and uncontrolled movemen...

For More Personalized Treatment: You Can Map Your DNA

For More Personalized Treatment: You Can Map Your DNA

To prescribe the right kind of drugs to the right kinda of people with a specific genetic profile, a UniSA scientist has called for Australia to embrace pharmacogenetic (PGx) testing to deli...

DNA Screening Test Could Become Norm to Detect Genetic Diseases

DNA Screening Test Could Become Norm to Detect Genetic Diseases

DNA screening test could help identify newborn babies who are more prone to have genetic diseases, reports a new study. The findings of the study are published in the American Journal of Hu...

How Is The DNA Packing Affecting Development In Early Embryos?

How Is The DNA Packing Affecting Development In Early Embryos?

Does DNA packing affect development in early embryos? Yes, it does. During the earliest stages of development, more compacted gene-coding regions arise so that a cell can make rapid "decisio...

Age-related Differences in DNA from Blood Detected

Age-related Differences in DNA from Blood Detected

Age and health related differences in fragments of DNA found floating in the bloodstream (not inside cells) called cell-free DNA (cfDNA) have been discovered by researchers. These difference...

DNA Testing may Soon be Routine for Patients with Kidney Disease

DNA Testing may Soon be Routine for Patients with Kidney Disease

Genes are responsible for about 1 in 10 cases of chronic kidney disease in adults, and identifying the responsible gene has an immediate impact on treatment for most of these patients. The f...

Biomarkers to Identify Cystic Fibrosis in Infants

Biomarkers to Identify Cystic Fibrosis in Infants

Biomarkers from a single drop of blood could allow earlier and more definitive detection of cystic fibrosis, according to the scientists at McMaster University. Cystic fibrosis is a gen...

Home-based Monitoring of Lung Function More Effective for Teens with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Home-based Monitoring of Lung Function More Effective for Teens with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Regular monitoring of lung function at home can be more convenient and effective for teens with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), reports a new study. The findings of the study are publishe...

Damages in DNA may Lead to Cancer and Genetic Diseases

Damages in DNA may Lead to Cancer and Genetic Diseases

The damages occurring in the DNA influence mutations. Many of the inheritance mutations are not caused by errors in DNA replication, rather caused by damage to this fragile molecule. The stu...

DNA Methylation in Womb may Cause Health Problems in Adulthood

DNA Methylation in Womb may Cause Health Problems in Adulthood

Conditions experienced in the womb will have life-long impact on health. When conditions are harsh, random differences in gene expression may provide a survival advantage to the embryos. By ...

Gene Therapy Offers New Hope for Patients with Blood Disorders

Gene Therapy Offers New Hope for Patients with Blood Disorders

Gene therapy offers fresh hope to thousands of people with blood disorders, reports a new study. The findings of the study are published in the journal Science Advances . Gene therapy ...

DNA Vaccine Reduce Toxic Proteins Related to Alzheimer's

DNA Vaccine Reduce Toxic Proteins Related to Alzheimer's

Tau and beta-amyloid, the two main toxic proteins accumulated in Alzheimer's disease, could be reduced by a new DNA vaccine delivered to the skin, according to the research done by UT Southw...

DNA Nanoplatform That Carries Chemotherapeutic Drugs Developed

DNA Nanoplatform That Carries Chemotherapeutic Drugs Developed

A tailored DNA nanoplatform that carries chemotherapeutic drugs and RNA interference toward multidrug-resistant tumors has been developed by Chinese scientists and reported in the journal An...

Non-Viral Ocular Gene Therapy Using Laser, Nanotechnology Offers New Hope to Treat Eye Diseases

Non-Viral Ocular Gene Therapy Using Laser, Nanotechnology Offers New Hope to Treat Eye Diseases

A giant leap toward non-viral ocular gene therapy using laser and nanotechnology can offer new hope for people with severe eye diseases such as glaucoma, retinitis and macular degeneration, ...

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