Huge potential for gene therapy
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Scientists have taken an important step towards a new way of treating disease by switching off key genes.
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Stem cells have become famous for their ability to heal, spurring hopes that they might one day cure Parkinson&#39;s disease, spinal cord injuries, and a wide variety of ailments.
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American scientists have claimed that an enzyme present in almost all animal and human cells can be used for the treatment of inflammatory diseases.
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Scientists have found a key gene which appears to increase the risk of developing osteoarthritis.
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Making stem cells with destroying human embryos could revolutionize medical research in the U.S.--and help unlock the very secrets of life.
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Myriad Genetics' innovative technology creates an investment opportunity.
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Injection of a new gene therapy into breast tumors, in combination with chemotherapy, shows impressive therapeutic effects in locally advanced breast cancers, according
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Gene-targeting therapies could one day offer relief from allergies such as hayfever, claim UK and Swiss scientists.
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RNA interference, whose discovery  brought Americans Andrew Fire and Craig Mello the Nobel Prize  in Medicine on Monday, is one of the hottest new areas of  biotechnology and has spawned its own mini-industry.
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Scientists have found a way of treating potentially fatal diseases by switching off harmful genes. In what is described as one of the most important breakthroughs in decades
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Scientists have moved closer to being able to use human stem cells to manufacture blood.
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A new way to use DNA sequencers could be the biggest thing to hit science since the microscope.
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Harvard researchers have identified the most important protein involved in hearing, which may be the first step toward eventual gene therapy for deafness.
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A technique would let scientists use a patientâs skin cell to generate new heart, liver or kidney cells that might be transplantable.
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Scientists have identified a cardiac stem cell that could be the basis for new heart therapies
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The treatment that more cancer patients receive may one day depend on their genes
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Researchers use gene therapy to stop pain signals before they reach the brain.