| News: Smallest-reported artificial virus could help advance gene therapy |
Gene therapy is a kind of experimental treatment that is designed to fix faulty genetic material and help a patient fight off or recover from a disease. Now scientists have engineered the smallest-reported virus-like shell that can self-assemble. It could someday carry potentially therapeutic DNA or RNA and transfer it to human cells. The report appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
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| News: New gene therapy technique can stop the spread of malignant cancer cells |
MIT scientists have developed a new gene therapy technique that can stop the spread of malignant cells around the body - the leading cause of mortality in women with breast cancer. The treatment uses microRNAs - small noncoding RNA molecules that regulate gene expression - to control the spread of cancer cells around the body, known as metastasis. The therapy could be used alongside chemotherapy to treat early-stage breast cancer tumours before they spread, according to Natalie Artzi, a principal research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.
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18 – 21 October 2016, XXIV Congress of the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT) and the International Society for Stem Cell Research, Florence, Italy |
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21 October 2016, Second European debate on Germline Gene Editing at ESGCT-ISSCR Congress, Florence, Italy |
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3 - 4 November 2016, 2nd Annual Cell & Gene Therapy Congress 2016, London, UK |
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16 – 18 November 2016, 15th Annual Gene Therapy Symposium for Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases, Sonoma, California |
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5 - 7 December 2016, CRISPR Summit USA, Boston, MA |
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29 - 30 November 2016, Cell Therapy Manufacturing & Gene Therapy Congress, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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6 - 7 February 2017, 2nd Annual Genome Editing & Engineering Conference, San Diego, CA |
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2 - 3 March 2017, 6th International Conference and Exhibition on Cell and Gene Therapy, Madrid, Spain |
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6 - 8 March 2017, International Society for BioProcess Technology 7th Spring Meeting - Viral vectors and vaccines, Washington, DC |
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16 - 17 March 2017, Spring Symposium of the Netherlands Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (NVGCT), Lunteren, The Netherlands |
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29 - 30 March 2017, 19th International Conference on Cell and Gene Therapy - ICCGT 2017, Singapore |
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19 - 21 April 2017, Annual conference of the British Society for Gene and Cell Therapy (BSGCT), Cardiff, Wales, UK |
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3 - 6 May 2017,International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT) 23th Annual Meeting, London, UK |
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10 - 13 May 2017, American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) 20th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC |
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14 - 19 May 2017, Gordon Research Conference: Virusses & Cells, Lucca, Italy |
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17 - 19 May 2017, World Advanced Therapies and Regenerative Medicine Congress 2017, London, UK |
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24 - 26 May 2017, 10th Australasian Gene Therapy Society Meeting (AGCTS), Sydney, Australia |
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27 - 28 November 2017, 19th International Conference on Cell and Gene Therapy - ICCGT 2017, Istanbul, Turkey |
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