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1,078 results for: GENE THERAPY

  1. Science & Society

    Science News of the Year 2003

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2003.

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  2. Wash that mouth out with bacteria!

    Genetically engineered bacteria may stop tooth decay by replacing the ones in the mouth that destroy tooth enamel.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Gene Therapy for Sickle-Cell Disease?

    By adding a useful gene to offset the effects of a faulty one, scientists have devised a gene therapy that prevents sickle-cell anemia in mice.

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  4. Humans

    Science News of the Year 2003

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2003.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Lab tool may spawn new antiviral drugs

    Short strands of RNA can be used to stop viruses such as HIV.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Shuttling medicines via blood cells

    Researchers have developed a way of encapsulating drugs in red blood cells, which can be used to deliver low doses of anti-inflammatory drugs to cystic fibrosis patients.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Pregnancy Woe Uncovered: Protein may underlie preeclampsia

    New evidence links a placental protein to preeclampsia symptoms and may lead to new ways of detecting and treating the disease.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Mixed Blessing: Unusual gene helps heart, hurts immunity

    People carrying a variant of a gene that encodes an immune protein called toll-like receptor 4 have a weaker defense against infections but appear to be less prone to heart disease.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Protein flags colon, prostate cancers

    A compound first identified as a possible culprit in Huntington's disease may be an indicator of cancers of the prostate gland and colon.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Transplanted Hopes

    Islet-cell success may bring a diabetes cure closer.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Lost and found

    Researchers have shown that a drug may shepherd a mutated protein—gone astray in people with cystic fibrosis—into its proper place.

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  12. Pushing the Mood Swings

    Social and psychological forces sway the course of manic depression.

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