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Scientists are using genetic techniques to target diseases that affect how we see, hear, smell, taste, and feel.
T-cells engineered to attack B-cells sent adults’ acute leukemia into remission.
Beagles no longer showed diabetes symptoms following a single course of gene therapy.
The European Commission approves the Western hemisphere’s first gene therapy, aimed at correcting a lipid-processing disorder.
Why naked mole-rats and experimental gene therapies remind me of groundbreaking artists.
Gene therapies typically involve the introduction of genetic material into target cells to replace or supplement an existing, usually dysfunctional, gene. Techniques for delivering the corrective payload vary widely. Many gene therapies utilize modif
Sangamo Biosciences is putting a different spin on gene therapy. Rather than replace or supplement a mutated gene with an accurate copy, Sangamo researchers are introducing a mutant copy of the gene for the HIV co-receptor CCR5 into the T cells of HI
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