Topic: Gene Therapy

Thousands of people were sending best wishes Thursday just before 2 p.m. to a Rexford family.. . Lori and Matt Sames young daughter Hannah suffers...
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2011's best health news

Although Behind the Headlines often spends time explaining mistaken or misguided news reports, the joy of this service is when there are genuinely...
The time for commercial development of gene therapy has come. Patients with diseases treatable and curable with gene therapy deserve access to the...
A new gene therapy method developed by University of Florida researchers has the potential to treat a common form of blindness that strikes both...
Members of a University of Pennsylvania research team have shown that they can prevent, or even reverse, a blinding retinal disease, X-linked...
ONE of the most fascinating and difficult questions to answer about serious mental illness is whether or not it is curable.. . I have an optimistic...
A single treatment of gene therapy dramatically improved symptoms and quality of life in a small group of men with hemophilia B, an uncommon form...
Philadelphia, PA, November 14, 2011 -(PR.com)- Researchers at Hadassah Hospital in Israel, led by Dr. Eyal Banin, have completed a clinical trial...
MIT researchers have found evidence of a massive network connecting bacteria from around the world: 10,000 unique genes flowing via horizontal gene...