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RSSA 1975 global data analysis on blindness reveals the shocking number of 28 million blind people across the world. And it has been estimated that the rise in global population and ageing would leave 58 million blind in 2010 and 75 million blind by 2020!...
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A relatively healthy 36-year-old Jolee Mohr, died this week after a gene therapy experiment went wrong.
Mohr was taking part in a voluntary experiment to find out if...
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The neurodegenerative disease Parkinson’s is spreading its tentacles with over 1 million people in the US alone affected by it! And in the process, it has by now...
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Some teased her by calling her a freak of nature, others referred to her as a retard, and she did not even register what they meant, because she had Down syndrome;...
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The first trials for curing childhood blindness would be started by UK scientists and the gene therapy treatment would be tested on people suffering from rare inherited...
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Gene therapy has been able to create excitement in the world of medicine but it has not been regarded as a feasible therapeutic method up till now. One of the problems...
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After space, it’s medical science only where we’ve a lot to dig out and we are moving fast on both fronts too. The year 2006 saw major achievements in...
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Researchers have found in their study that gene palladin plays an important role in prompting
Pancreatic cancer, which is the fourth leading cause of deaths and...
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Arnold Melman, a professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and other researchers, have targeted impotency, which is fast becoming a common...
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University of Colorado and University of Denver scientists are on the verge of finding out a solution to an old mechanical roadblock in the delivery of gene therapy....
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Hey! Good news for the diabetics who are having inferior sexual functioning. Researchers have invented a new gene therapy that is capable of improving the sexual...
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A gene encoding for cytokine may prevent to development the onset of hyperglycemia. Cytokine, a protein, stimulates and obstructs the creation and function of the...
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Gene therapy experts in Germany have come to the conclusion that cells can repair themselves without replacing a faulty gene. The new approach controls the cells’...
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Children born with X-linked severe combined immune deficiency (X-SCID) disorder don’t have any resistance power. They live in a sterile ‘bubble’. Even...
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The first trials for curing childhood blindness would be started by UK scientists and the gene therapy treatment would be tested on people suffering from rare inherited...
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