Gene therapy 'corrects fragile X'
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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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A single change in a human gene may hold the key to preventing people living with HIV from progressing to full-blown AIDS, researchers said on Monday.
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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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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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Scientists in the United States find a way to turn lazy monkeys into workaholics using gene therapy.
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Scientists have identified a gene which controls the body&#39;s ability to repair the nerve damage inflicted by diseases like multiple sclerosis.
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The first human stem cell line with the mutation for cystic fibrosis (CF) has been developed by UK researchers.
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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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A recent study initiated by drug manufacturing company DeCode Genetics of Reykjavik, has come up with startling results. The report was published in âPloS Medicineâ, the on-line journal.
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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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A team of researchers from the National Cancer Institute reported yesterday that they have successfully treated two cancer patients using gene therapy, the introduction of genes into the human body for medical purposes.
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Scientists searching for a way to  treat the rare but severe childhood neurological disorder Rett  syndrome have reversed the disease in mice, raising hopes for  doing the same in people.
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A gene therapy trial starts which scientists hope will extend the lives of patients with muscular dystrophy.
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Research into how the human body repairs damaged DNA is described as a "major breakthrough".
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Rett syndrome can be substantially reversed in mice by correcting the errant gene, new research suggests.
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Scientists identify a gene which controls the body's ability to repair the nerve damage inflicted by diseases like multiple sclerosis.
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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.