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Tag Archives: gene therapy
Telomerase Gene Therapy Extends Lives Of Mice By Up To 24 Percent
Scientists are doing their best to give us the gift of immortality. The latest in the fight against ever dying [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged chromosome, dna, gene therapy, lifespan, longevity, maría blasco, medicine, mice, regenerative medicine, telomerase
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New Study Shows Gene Therapy For HIV Safe After A Decade
A clinical trial testing a gene therapy for HIV patients is now 11 years old. Recently, the researchers running the [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged bruce levine, cancer, carl june, gene therapy, Genetics, hiv aids, Stem Cells, t cells
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Gene Therapy For Blind Again A Success, More Patients To Be Treated
In 2009, 12 people participated in a clinical trial through which they received an experimental gene therapy for an inherited [...]
New Gene Therapy Stops The Bleeding In Hemophilia Patients (video)
Finally, some good news about gene therapy. And just in time for the holidays. A recent study showed that giving [...]
AIDS Turns 30: Are We Close to a Cure?
On June 5th, 1981, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report told the world about five rapidly deteriorating men who arrived [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged AIDS, Antiretroviral, gene therapy, hiv, NIH, Public Health, Stem Cells, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Man Cured of HIV Using Stem Cells. Fluke or Hope?
Timothy Ray Brown has officially been declared cured of HIV. A US citizen living in Germany with HIV, Brown was [...]
Posted in Stem Cells
Tagged AIDS, CCR5, Charite University of Medicine Berlin, gene therapy, genetic therapy, HAART, hiv, Timothy Ray Brown
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Gene Therapy Looks To Have Cured Man With Blood Disease
Gene therapy is making a difference in the lives of patients. A phase I/II clinical study run by researchers at [...]
New Gene Therapy Trials To Test Cure For Bubble Boy Syndrome
New research sponsored at Children’s Hospital Boston will use gene therapy to fix the malfunctioning DNA of children with severe [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health
Tagged bone marrow, gene therapy, scid, severe combined immunodeficiency, X-SCID
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Super Strength Substance (Myostatin) Closer to Human Trials
Get muscles now, ask me how. As published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, researchers at the National Children’s Hospital [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health
Tagged follistatin, gene therapy, macaque, monkey, musular dystrophy, myostatin, national children's hospital, strength
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Gene Therapy Cures Color Blindness in Monkeys
If nature gave you some bum genes, you’ve got a chance of fixing them. Genetic treatments have allowed researchers to [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health
Tagged color blindness, colour blindness, gene therapy, genetic doping, L-opsin, monkeys, Nature, opsin
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Gene Therapy Trial To Fight HIV Shows Promise
A trial to test the safety and effectiveness of gene therapy to cure or alleviate HIV in patients has seen [...]
Gene Therapy Cures Fatal Bubble Boy Disease
Gene therapy marked another successful milestone last week when it was used to completely cure eight of 10 children who [...]
Vision Restored to Blind Patients in Gene Therapy Breakthrough
The emerging field of gene therapy took a huge leap forward in 2008 when vision was substantially restored to several [...]