Patient in Gene Therapy Study Dies
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A patient in a gene therapy experiment died on Tuesday in what may have been a reaction to a novel treatment for arthritis, federal health officials said late yesterday.
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Appreciation: Folkman, who died Tuesday,  cured cancer in the lab and revolutionized treatment of the disease. His colleagues talk about the impact of the man and his research
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A boy with no immune system being treated with pioneering  gene therapy has developed leukaemia, his doctors say.
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LONDON, Dec 4  A critically ill British woman who won a landmark legal ruling this week to travel abroad for an assisted suicide has died at a Swiss clinic, the Voluntary Euthanasia Society (VES) said ...
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Dr. Arthur Kornberg, who won the 1959 Nobel Prize for figuring out how DNA is built, died on Friday of respiratory failure at the age of 89, Stanford University Hospital in California said.
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At least one person has died after being injected with a purported treatment for Lyme disease, health officials said Friday in warning doctors and patients to avoid the unapproved product.
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A Japanese man died after a bite from his pet hamster caused anaphylactic shock, Mainichi Shimbun reports. Ther nameless forty-something succumbed after repeated bites from the animal sensitised his immune
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accident nine years ago made him a worldwide advocate for embryonic stem cell research and gave him a hate-love relationship with the Christian community, died Sunday of heart failure, his family and publicist announced Monday, October 11.
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Dr. Judah Folkman, a groundbreaking cancer researcher whose work cured the disease in mice and gave hope for a cure in humans, has died
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Scientists are beginning a gene therapy trial which they hope will extend the lives of patients with muscular dystrophy.
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If the death of a 36-year-old woman is eventually tied to an experimental gene therapy treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, it could set back a field that has already had its share of failures and black eyes.
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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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Scientists yesterday mourned Maurice Wilkins, sometimes called the forgotten man of DNA, who died in hospital on Tuesday aged 88. Wilkins, a professor at King&#39;s College London, shared the 1962 Nobel prize
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A top U.S. scientist known as the "father of gene therapy" was sentenced on Friday to 14 years in prison for molesting a young girl after his victim told the court that the sex abuse nearly drove her to suicide.
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A three-year-old "bubble boy" undergoing pioneering gene therapy in London has developed leukemia, marking another setback for the experimental treatment.
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"Superman" actor Christopher Reeve, who became a committed campaigner for spinal cord research after being paralyzed in a riding accident nine years ago, died of heart failure, his publicist said on Monday.
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Two lupus patients died from a rare brain infection after taking the Genentech and Biogen Idec drug Rituxan, U.S. health officials said in an advisory issued on Monday.