Gene therapy implants for tendons
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Freeze-dried implants are being developed which may help repair injured and difficult-to-treat tendons.
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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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Gene-targeting therapies could one day offer relief from allergies such as hayfever, claim UK and Swiss scientists.
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The Food and Drug Administration has for the first time approved the use of electrical stimulation of bone growth - a decades-old technology - to improve the success rate of spinal fusion
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By Anonymous  In an article e-published on April 5 ahead of print in Gene Therapy, Raty et al.
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Researchers have discovered a gene mutation which prevents otherwise healthy carriers from feeling pain.
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Scientists are working on a technique to repair fractures using a patient's own stem cells.
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BUENOS AIRES  - The first three patients  participating in an early test of a "revolutionary" human gene  therapy for erectile dysfunction have not developed any  treatment-related side effects, according to preliminary  results released here this week at a meeting of the  International Society for Sexual and Impotence Research.
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Increasing the activity of a single gene turns a mere rodent into Mighty Mouse, according to a new study. California scientists have genetically engineered an animal that has more muscle, less
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A treatment for muscular dystrophy may be within view after US scientists reported Sunday they used stem cell transplants to improve muscle function in mice afflicted with the disease.
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Genzyme Corp. is expanding its research  into gene therapy, a controversial and cutting-edge approach to  treating disease which most companies avoid.
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Scientists have used a genetic technique to cut cholesterol in mice in a groundbreaking way which could one day be used to treat a range of human illnesses.
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Gene therapy is used to alleviate symptoms of a condition which is a cause of inherited learning difficulties.
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Sheets of elastic, sticky polymers could replace sutures and provide long-term drug delivery.
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Science & environment: British scientists have been given the go-ahead to begin potentially ground-breaking experiments using injections of stem cells to repair patients' damaged hearts
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Scientists are developing an artificial vein for use in patients with circulation problems.
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BUENOS AIRES  - A course of injections of  alpha-interferon (Intron-A) seems to improve penile curvature  and sexual satisfaction in men with Peyronie's disease,  American urologists reported here on Wednesday at the meeting  of the International Society for Sexual and Impotence Research.