Cancer Researchers Announce Gene Therapy Success
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THURSDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. scientists are pointing to the full, 18-month-long remission of two melanoma patients as the first evidence that gene therapy can work to beat back cancer.
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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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Scientists say they have found a safer way of controlling genes to treat disease.
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A new technology that counts cancer cells in the blood helps predict the success of breast cancer treatments more quickly and more reliably than established methods, researchers reported.
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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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An experimental treatment tripled the survival rate of men with advanced prostate cancer in a clinical trial, doctors said yesterday, a result they said represents perhaps the first significant success for therapies known as cancer vaccines.
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A leukemia vaccine has been successful enough in its first trials to warrant larger studies that will include hundreds of patients, researchers report.
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Scientists from Singapore&#39;s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology have discovered two genes that may regulate the growth of cancer cells.
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Human therapeutic cloning has moved a big step closer after US researchers said they had successfully created embyonic stem cells from monkey embryos.
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By restoring tiny bits of genetic material missing from breast tumors in mice, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday they were able to block the cancer's ability to spread.
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Scientists believe they have found a way to make prostate cancer treatment more effective.
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YEARS of clinical trials had yielded promising results for a vaccine that would protect women from a virus that caused colon and cervical cancer, US researchers said today.
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Researchers say they have found a way to reverse resistance to one of the most effective anti-cancer drugs.
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More than 100,000 women with breast cancer were offered new hope yesterday by research hailed as the biggest advance in treatment of the disease for 30 years.
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Tiny bubbles injected in mice delivered potent cancer drugs to tumors without harming surrounding tissue, a U.S. researcher said on Tuesday, in a finding that may lead to new targeted cancer therapies.
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New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in biotechnology--and what they mean.