Gene Therapy

Device can mass-produce engineered cells at lower cost, a tipping point for emerging lifesaving therapies What if you could cure cancer by re-engineering patients' cells to better target and destroy their own tumors? With the advent of…

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, November 12, 2019--A new study has shown that a commonly used vector for large gene transfer can successfully deliver genes to retinal cells in the laboratory, but when…

New technique to help explore genetic diseases, benefit drug developmentCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have developed a better way to determine what our…

City of Hope's cell experiments show more effective genetic 'cuts' that could one day become the foundation of new and more effective gene therapies DUARTE, Calif. -- City of Hope researchers may have found a way to sharpen the fastest,…

A microRNA inhibitor identified by researchers at the FAPESP-supported Human Genome and Stem Cell Research Center reduced the sizes of aggressive tumors and improved survival in miceCredit: Translational Genomics Laboratory, IB-USP In…

Credit: City University of Hong Kong A team of researchers from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and Karolinska Institutet has recently developed a new protein that can help increase the targeting accuracy in the genome editing…

Treatment increases healthspan in mice and could lead to increased longevity As we age, our bodies tend to develop diseases like heart failure, kidney failure, diabetes, and obesity, and the presence of any one disease increases the risk…

New possibilities for gene therapiesCredit: Scienseed The team, comprising researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, the Universitätsklinikum Würzburg and the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, managed to design a new variant of…

Engineered peptides provide efficient, non-toxic delivery of gene-editing proteins to airway cellsCredit: Paul McCray, University of Iowa News of advances in gene-editing technology raises the prospect of actually using this…

Preclinical study shows long-term suppression of seizuresCredit: Schwarzer/Medical University of Innsbruck Teams of researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Medical University of Innsbruck have developed a new…