Gene Therapy
Gene therapy recovery drug for $665,000 offered with money back guarantee
A gene therapy will be offered for sale in Europe with a money-back guarantee, according to GlaxoSmithKline, the company commercializing ...
Will epigenetics play central role in advancement of precision medicine?
For many treatments it remains to be proven whether a drug's epigenetic actions, rather than another mechanism such as stimulation ...
Gene doping could actually make Olympics fairer
There have yet to be any confirmed cases of athletes genetically enhancing their bodies. But this could be because none ...
Olympic controversy over intersex athletes about to ignite?
It’s a ticking timebomb,” Daniel Mothowagae says...as he anticipates the furore that is likely to explode when Caster Semenya runs in ...
Gene fix for muscle wasting may help improve gene treatments, save lives
The breakdown of muscle often accompanies chronic or long-term disease, making disease worse and sometimes hastening death, and doctors have ...
Are Olympic athletes using ‘gene doping’ to improve performance?
The World Anti-Doping Agency, WADA, which advises the Olympics and other sports organizations on illicit performance-enhancement, has accused Russia of ...
Can gene therapy reverse aging?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In September 2015, [Elizabeth] ...
After 8 years and $8 million, gene therapy begins for 12-year-old with rare neurological disorder
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [July 21, 2016], 8 ...
Transhumanism and 2016 Presidential race
Trump? Clinton? Johnson? How about Zoltan Istvan, he's the Transhumanist Party 2016 presidential candidate ...
Should scientific community embrace germ line gene therapy?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Until now, only one ...
Nature editorial: Gene therapy must proceed slowly in light of past perils
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Despite having a condition ...
Could CRISPR on humans spell end to heart disease, high cholesterol and diabetes?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Could gene editing spell ...
Does CRISPR clinical trial on humans proposal bring more questions than answers?
Researchers have proposed the first human trials involving CRISPR gene editing. Is this really a landmark moment for human genetics? ...
Now, gene therapy features new tools and safer delivery system
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Gene therapy was once ...
CRISPR creates mini-organs for disease testing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Traditionally, gene therapy efforts ...
Gene editing drugs close in on approval, but could carry million dollar price tag
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Drugs that act by ...
Clinical trials suffer from “black hole of medical ethics”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A decade after Jean ...
Can gene therapy really help cure glioblastoma?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Glioblastoma is one of ...
Gene therapy now consistently and effectively treating hemophilia
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bill Maurits has hemophilia ...
‘New era of medicine?’ First children cured of genetic diseases with gene therapy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. British doctors have cured ...
Bioethical dithering on gene therapy comes at expense of patients’ lives
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Activist Marcy Darnovsky published ...
Heard of CRISPR gene editing? It can save your life
Science is in the midst of a CRISPR craze as the technology is poised to improve treatment and prevention of ...
Gene therapy may give way to new type I diabetes treatment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Despite eclectic ways of ...
Should we trust experiments on one patient? Lessons from BioViva’s anti-aging gene therapy
The CEO of biotech company BioViva is a healthy woman in her mid forties, but last September she become her ...
Gene therapy shows promising results in leukemia patients
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Twenty-seven of 29 patients ...
Gene therapy likely best shot at curing brain diseases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The concept of gene ...
CEO who took gene therapy designed to treat aging reveals promising early results
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2015, Elizabeth Parrish, ...