Remission in one-third of terminal lymphoma patients after gene therapy
A trial gene therapy has reversed terminal blood cancer in a third of patients...
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 trial gene therapy has reversed terminal blood cancer in a third of patients...
A Canadian man with Fabry disease — a rare, inherited enzyme deficiency — is the first person to be given gene therapy for the condition...
An improved gene-therapy technique using a synthetic virus has restored the hearing of deaf mice up to the level of a whisper...
Scientists have developed bacteria which can live and grow with DNA containing extra 'letters'...
by Arit Udoh
Insulin-producing cells from pancreases grown in rats can cure diabetes when transplanted into mice, according to a study...
Doctors at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital have used genome editing to successfully treat two children with leukaemia...
Researchers have successfully turned stem cells into 'totipotent' cells, with characteristics resembling those of fertilised eggs...
Researchers have identified 23 genes that are linked to metastasis — the spread of cancer cells to other parts of the body...
Gene therapy can reverse the effects of ageing in mice, researchers claim...
A newly discovered gene variant seems to reduce an individual's fondness for alcohol, a study has found...
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