Gene therapy for leukaemia set for FDA go-ahead
A drug for leukaemia that genetically alters patients' own cells to fight cancer, has cleared a critical hurdle in gaining commercial approval...
The alteration of an organism's or a cell's genetic material using biotechnology techniques. Traditionally, the term has referred only to alterations involving the introduction of transgenic (foreign) DNA.
A drug for leukaemia that genetically alters patients' own cells to fight cancer, has cleared a critical hurdle in gaining commercial approval...
by Cara Foley
A gene that could play a key role in depression has been identified...
by Kess Rowe
Genome editing is currently a hot topic. This is partly because of its promise in potentially treating genetic diseases and improving farmed crops; but also because it raises many ethical debates regarding safety and moral responses to this advancement...
Life-threatening allergies and asthma could one day be treated by a single injection, say researchers who have successfully treated mice using gene therapy...
Two trials of a new gene therapy have successfully treated blood cancers in patients who were unresponsive to standard treatment...
by Paul Waldron
In two different studies, US scientists have succeeded in creating the stem cells which produce blood...
A gene variant which gives protection against the most dangerous form of malaria has been identified...
A gene has been linked to quality of sleep...
Radiolab explores the science, the uses and the ethics of CRISPR in this podcast that was two years in the making...
A trial gene therapy has reversed terminal blood cancer in a third of patients...
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