A study by a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team finds that neurogenesis -inducing the production of new neurons—in the brain structure in which memories are encoded can improve cognitive function in a mouse ...
Sep 6, 2018
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Doctors for the first time have used a form of gene therapy to restore partial vision in a blind person, according to findings announced Monday.
May 24, 2021
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Wanda (Lemna) O'Neal was four years old when her sister Nancy died.
Apr 24, 2015
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Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have identified a specific subset of adult blood stem cells that is exclusively responsible for repopulating the entire blood and immune system after a transplant.
Nov 1, 2017
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A gene therapy being developed at Penn Medicine to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) successfully and safely stopped the severe muscle deterioration associated with the rare, genetic disease in both small and large ...
Oct 7, 2019
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Positive results of the world's first gene therapy trial for a genetic cause of blindness known as choroideremia have been reported in Nature Medicine.
Oct 9, 2018
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A single treatment giving life-long protection from severe allergies such as asthma could be made possible by immunology research at The University of Queensland.
Jun 2, 2017
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Researchers have used CRISPR to treat an adult mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This marks the first time that CRISPR has successfully treated a genetic disease inside a fully developed living mammal with a strategy ...
Dec 31, 2015
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University of California, Berkeley scientists have for the first time used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to disable a defective gene that causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, in mice, extending their ...
Dec 20, 2017
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When the spinal cords of mice and humans are partially damaged, the initial paralysis is followed by the extensive, spontaneous recovery of motor function. However, after a complete spinal cord injury, this natural repair ...
Sep 21, 2023
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