Molecular Therapy
One-two punch could be key in treating blindness
Researchers have discovered that using two kinds of therapy in tandem may be a knockout combo against inherited disorders that cause blindness. While their study focused on man's best friend, the treatment ...
Ophthalmology
Apr 09, 2013 |
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Evidence supports blocking immune response to enhance viral therapy against solid tumors
Following several years of study, investigators have found more evidence that viral therapy to treat solid tumors can be enhanced by blocking the body's natural immune response.
Cancer
Mar 13, 2013 |
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Scientists discover 'needle in a haystack' for muscular dystrophy patients
(Medical Xpress)—Muscular dystrophy is caused by the largest human gene, a complex chemical leviathan that has confounded scientists for decades. Research conducted at the University of Missouri and described ...
Medical research
Jan 22, 2013 |
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Immune cells engineered in lab to resist HIV infection
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a novel way to engineer key cells of the immune system so they remain resistant to infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
HIV & AIDS
Jan 22, 2013 |
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Oral breast cancer vaccine may offer new prevention tool
(Medical Xpress)—A new oral vaccine that produces a novel two-pronged immune system attack on cancer cells could be effective in preventing breast cancer recurrence, according to findings from a collaborative ...
Cancer
Jan 18, 2013 |
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A quantum leap in gene therapy of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Usually, results from a new study help scientists inch their way toward an answer whether they are battling a health problem or are on the verge of a technological breakthrough. Once in a while, those results ...
Medical research
Jan 15, 2013 |
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Way to make one-way flu vaccine discovered
A new process to make a one-time, universal influenza vaccine has been discovered by a researcher at Georgia State University's Center for Inflammation, Immunity and Infection and his partners.
Medications
Dec 18, 2012 |
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Mouse model could help identify viral vectors that may cause tumors
Investigators at Nationwide Children's Hospital have identified a mouse model that could help evaluate the risk that viral vectors used in gene therapy might promote tumor formation as a side-effect. The study appears in ...
Cancer
Oct 26, 2012 |
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Research scores advance in manipulating T-cells
(Medical Xpress)—Until recently, medical researchers had little hope of experimentally manipulating naïve T cells to study their crucial roles in immune function, because they were largely impenetrable, ...
Medical research
Oct 11, 2012 |
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Cancer therapy: Nanokey opens tumors to attack
There are plenty of effective anticancer agents around. The problem is that, very often, they cannot gain access to all the cells in solid tumors. A new gene delivery vehicle may provide a way of making tracks to the heart ...
Cancer
Nov 14, 2012 |
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'Intelligent medicine' erases side effects
Scientists at Aarhus University, Denmark in collaboration with the biotech company Cytoguide now publish a key to use glucocorticoid steroids in a kind of intelligent medicine that specifically hits the relevant cells. Data ...
Medical research
May 31, 2012 |
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Mount Sinai grad student, 25, named to Forbes '30 Under 30' in Science and Healthcare
Jillian Shapiro, a third-year graduate student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been named to the second annual Forbes "30 Under 30" list in "Science and Health." The honorees "reflect the way that the he ...
Medical research
Dec 20, 2012 |
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