Gene therapy beats skin cancer in two men: study
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Genetically altered immune cells  wiped out tumors in two men with a deadly form of skin cancer  and kept the patients disease-free for at least 18 months, U.S.  scientists said on Thursday.
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Chronic stress might speed up the onset of skin cancer in those already at high risk for the disease, a new study indicates. The research is still preliminary, involving mice, not 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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Researchers use gene therapy to stop pain signals before they reach the brain.
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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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BARCELONA - A very early test of an experimental drug seemed to slow the spread of advanced deadly skin cancer in a small study, the drug's US developer reported in preliminary findings yesterday.
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A genetically engineered herpes virus,  designed to kill cancer cells but leave normal tissue unharmed,  has shown early promise in clinical tests, scientists said on  Saturday.
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Genentech Inc. and Swiss drug maker Roche Holding AG said Monday that a recent study showed their colon cancer drug Avastin significantly extended patient survival when combined with oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy drugs.
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Certain genes are known to promote cancer, and one such &quot;oncogene&quot; called MYC is commonly activated in liver tumors. Researchers in California have
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Scientists have discovered that a key cancer gene also plays a role in repairing damaged nerve cells.
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Doctors use gene therapy to treat two boys with the rare nervous disorder made famous through the film "Lorenzo's Oil".
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Healthy mice are successfully cloned from skin cells taken from adult mice, US researchers report.
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Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello won for a discovery about how genes are controlled within living cells.
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The first attempt at gene therapy against Parkinson&#39;s disease has yielded promising results and is safe, according to early data from this ground-breaking experiment.
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Gene therapy using &quot;naked DNA&quot; might one day help prevent impotence, scientists now report.
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Scientists have discovered a previously unknown virus and strongly linked it with the most aggressive form of skin cancer.
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Genentech's cancer drug Avastin helped patients with advanced kidney cancer live twice as long as those on standard therapy alone, according to a study released on Saturday.