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New gene therapy approach offers promise for treating eye disease
Nov 26, 2020 | 23:58 pmScientists from Trinity College Dublin have developed a new gene therapy approach that offers promise for one day treating an eye disease that leads to a progressive loss of vision and affects thousands of people across the globe.
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Basic concepts lay the foundation for personalized immunotherapy
Nov 23, 2020 | 06:04 amPersonalized Immunotherapy for Tumor Diseases and Beyond introduces personalized immunotherapy with multi-dimensional models of analysis to determine the best plan for the immunotherapy of patients.
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New findings could pave the way for more effective, safer and cheaper gene therapy
Nov 21, 2020 | 02:32 amIn a promising advance for affordable, personalized medicine, researchers have used metal-organic frameworks to successfully deliver the genetic snipping tool CRISPR/Cas9 into human cancer cells.
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New method of repairing damage to optic nerve offers hope for people with glaucoma-related sight loss
Nov 20, 2020 | 07:59 amFight for Sight funded researchers have successfully demonstrated a new method of repairing damage to the optic nerve in the lab for the first time, in new research that hopes to restore vision to those who’ve lost it as a result of glaucoma and other conditions.
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Texas Heart Institute to participate in a study to treat ARDS in hospitalized COVID-19 patients
Nov 20, 2020 | 02:56 amTexas Heart Institute has been selected as one of up to 60 sites in the world to participate in an international investigative study seeking to aid COVID-19 patients who develop acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
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NIH project aims to maximize efficiency of AAV platform for gene therapy
Nov 19, 2020 | 07:19 amMaximizing the efficiency of the adeno-associated virus (AAV) platform for gene therapy is the aim of a new pilot project of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Somatic mutation may act as a natural gene therapy in patients with rare autosomal disease
Nov 18, 2020 | 02:30 amResearchers affiliated with the Center for Cell-Based Therapy in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, have identified for the first time a non-hereditary mutation in blood cells from a patient with GATA2 deficiency, a rare autosomal disease caused by inherited mutations in the gene that encodes GATA-binding protein 2 (GATA2).
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Researchers use aerosolized molecules to shut down proteins generated by coronavirus
Nov 16, 2020 | 06:19 amResearchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have successfully used molecules comprised of small strands of RNA to shut down the production of destructive proteins generated by the COVID-19 virus.
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New data highlights safety concerns on rAAV vectors used in gene therapy
Nov 16, 2020 | 06:13 amNew data highlight safety concerns for the replication of recombinant adeno-associated viral (rAAV) vectors commonly used in gene therapy.
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New method using light-activated liposomes is safer, more direct to deliver CRISPR gene therapy
Nov 12, 2020 | 18:17 pmLight-activated liposomes could help to deliver CRISPR gene therapy - and the method could prove safer and more direct than current methods.
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