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1,073 results for: GENE THERAPY

  1. Microbes

    Microbes can redeem themselves to fight disease

    With some genetic engineering, bacteria can morph from bad to good and help attack invading cancer cells.

    By Susan Gaidos
  2. Life

    Autoimmune diseases stopped in mice

    Reprogramming immune cells may offer a way to treat autoimmune diseases without harming the body’s ability to fight infections.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Health & Medicine

    Autism spike may reflect better diagnoses, and that’s a good thing

    As doctors get better at spotting autism spectrum disorders, kids may get help earlier — and the numbers of diagnoses will increase.

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Genetics

    Technique inactivates Down-causing chromosome

    Though far from a cure, the advance could eventually lead to gene therapy that alleviates some symptoms.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  5. Health & Medicine

    Unsolved drugs

    Long thought to launch precision attacks against bacteria, antibiotics may also cause lethal collateral damage, according to a controversial theory. Exploring how these compounds kill may reveal new ways to fight antibiotic resistance.

    By Beth Mole
  6. Health & Medicine

    Experimental type 1 diabetes treatment shows promise

    Findings in a small group of patients hint that a DNA-based therapy might work, but the effects fade after treatment stops.

    By Nathan Seppa
  7. Math

    Systems biology tunes in to cancer networks

    If cable TV systems had a channel called The Cancer Network, doctors would be wise to tune in. But there’s no such channel. So for now, they’ll just have to read articles in scientific journals that publish papers on the science of networks. Scientists in the new field of systems biology have made a lot […]

    By Tom Siegfried
  8. Life

    Exploration forges differences in identical twins

    Mice with the same genes and surroundings diverged in brain development depending on how much they moved around their environment.

    By Puneet Kollipara
  9. Neuroscience

    Memories lost and found

    Drugs that help mice remember reveal role for epigenetics in recall.

    By Susan Gaidos
  10. Life

    Tasmanian devil disease reveals its secrets

    The contagious cancer evades the animal’s immune system by turning off key genes.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  11. Life

    Dangerous Digs

    By properly managing a tumor cell’s microenvironment, cancer researchers are making cancer something people live with, not die from.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  12. Health & Medicine

    Baby may be cured of HIV

    Only viral traces remain after prompt treatment of newborn, suggesting no working virus is left in the girl’s body.

    By Nathan Seppa