Gene Therapy Used to Treat Skin Cancer
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Two of the 17 melanoma skin cancer patients treated with genetic altered immune cells improved, government scientists said Thursday.
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A small pilot study shows that  gene therapy might help men with erectile dysfunction.
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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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It was the kind of breakthrough scientists had dreamed of for decades and its promise to help cure disease appears to be fast on the way to being realized. Researchers in November announced they were able to turn the clock back on skin cells and transform them into stem cells, the mutable building blocks of organs and tissues.
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FRIDAY, Sept. 24 (HealthDayNews) -- The use of gene therapy to deliver nerve growth factor into areas of the brain where neurons are degenerating, to reverse the ravages of Alzheimer's disease, is being investigated by Rush University Medical Center scientists.
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Researchers have cloned healthy mice from skin cells for the first time.
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Researchers in Dundee are set to trial a new treatment for children struck with a deadly skin condition.
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Scientists develop a sunscreen that they say will repair sunburnt skin and may help prevent cancer.
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Genetically altered immune cells shrank tumors in skin cancer patients, researchers report, in a technique that may soon be applicable to many other types of cancer.
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A gene therapy treatment that helped make cells more sensitive to the body's own painkillers not only helped ease arthritis pain in mice but also reduced other symptoms, researchers said on Friday.
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Scientists say they have found a safer way of controlling genes to treat disease.
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Intravenous keratinocyte growth factor indicated for use in patients with hematologic cancers who require bone-marrow transplantation.
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This small biotech provides screens that can help catch cancer.
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Researchers use gene therapy to stop pain signals before they reach the brain.
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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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MONDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDayNews) -- A technique that uses a specially designed virus may help overcome a major stumbling block in using gene therapy to treat cancer, say Columbia University Medical Center researchers.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 1 (HealthDayNews) -- A protein called Stat3 sets skin cancer development in motion, says a study by researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.