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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New drugs that are to be tested in connection with a phenomenon called RNA interference have excited scientists with their versatile and powerful ability to affect genes.
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Microscopic embryonic stem cells might hold the answer to afflictions from baldness, wrinkles, and age spots to the most intractable diseases.
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Forget genetic engineering. The new idea is synthetic biology, an effort to rewire the genetic circuitry of living organisms.
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NEW YORK  - Gene therapy might one day be  an effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease, new experiments  in mice suggest.
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Scientists believe they will be able to develop treatments for deafness due to the discovery of the gene they believe controls the process that enables us to hear.
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Scientists have found a key gene which appears to increase the risk of developing osteoarthritis.
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A powerful new strategy promises to speed up the effort to link genes to specific diseases. Can you say 'transcriptome'?
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Curing blindness and treating diabetes "naturally" in mice are just two of the recent breakthroughs that suggest stem cells hold real potential for helping humans.
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Scientists have developed an easy-to-use technique for reprogramming a skin cell of a mouse back to the embryonic state, which could have implications for regenerative medicine in humans.
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Gene therapy might one day be an effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease, new experiments in mice suggest.
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NEW YORK  - A small pilot study shows that gene therapy might help men with erectile dysfunction.
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Scientists believe they are close to a significant breakthrough in the treatment of spinal injuries.
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The treatment that more cancer patients receive may one day depend on their genes
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The latest findings may expand the ways of generating customized stem cells for new treatments
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A new gene therapy causes the bladder to act like a &quot;bioreactor&quot; and secrete an anticancer agent that has proven to fight human tumors.
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Scientists have discovered a new  cancer-causing gene that they believe could be a molecular  master switch for the disease.