First successful gene transplant a success
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Blog: The species was changed. But it's controversial.
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Scientists say the results represent a new stage in synthetic biology.
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After nearly two decades of research, success is not a word generally associated with gene therapy. It's even led to deaths that some experts believe should never have happened.
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New procedure lets adult mouse cells mimic stem cells, bringing hope to anticloning activists.
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According to a report published in this month&#39;s issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, researchers have shown for the first time that transplanted stem cells can preserve and improve vision in eyes damaged by retinal disease.
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In a breakthrough that doctors say gives hope to many women who've become infertile after cancer treatments, a woman who received an ovarian tissue transplant gives birth to a healthy baby girl.
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NEW YORK  - Transplanting stem cells from a  healthy woman to her sister with severe rheumatoid arthritis  apparently cured the disease, researchers report in the journal  Arthritis & Rheumatism.
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Scientists said yesterday that they had transplanted a microbe's entire, tangled mass of DNA into a closely related organism, a delicate operation that cleanly transformed the recipient from one species into the other.
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A French woman who two years ago became the first person to receive a face transplant has recovered with remarkably good aesthetic results and has gradually regained normal skin sensation and control of her facial muscles, doctors reported yesterday in the first detailed account of her progress.
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Researchers from universities in the UK, the US and South Africa have successfully identified key genes in the body&#39;s fight against HIV infection.
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A treatment that involves slipping billions of copies of a gene into the brain seemed to improve symptoms without causing side effects.
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The biotech's new cancer candidate passes phase 1 trials.
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Patients who have benefited from donated organs were today celebrating 50 years since the worldâs first successful transplant operation.
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A leading human genome scientist says he has taken a major step towards creating life from scratch in the lab.
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Emboldened by the success of a stem cell ballot initiative in California last week, two scientists who have long pushed for an ambitious research center for the biotechnology
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A genetic blood test allowing a much closer match between donors and recipients is under development.
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Using a recently developed technique for turning skin cells into stem cells, scientists have cured mice of sickle cell anemia -- the first direct proof that the easily obtained cells can reverse an inherited, potentially fatal disease.