Gene Therapy
Large analysis finds common genetics links between depression, neuroticism, and sense of well-being
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The role of genetics in mental ...
CRISPR may help neuroscientists unlock genetics of psychiatric disease
We still have much to learn about the genetics of the human brain, but advances in gene editing have allowed ...
Gene therapy gives new hope to curing ‘bubble boy’ disease
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. David Vetter, the famous ...
Why it matters that Sanders aligns with conservatives on funding stem cell and cloning research
Bernie Sanders has consistently aligned with social conservatives on human cloning and stem cell research. What could this mean for ...
Despite promises, CRISPR not yet safe enough for human gene therapy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Not too long ago, ...
Artificial uterus: How close is the reality?
Nobody is working on an artificial uterus that can carry a fetus for the entirety of a pregnancy. But medical ...
Interview with Mihaela Vasile from Monsanto-Romania
Mihaela Vasile is a Corporate Engagement & Government Relations Manager-Monsanto România and she was more than a willing to answer ...
Proposed US legislation could threaten stem cell therapy safety
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Senators Mark Kirk, Joe ...
First patient to undergo optogenetic therapy hopes to restore sight
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A blind woman in ...
Why some animals live for centuries and don’t get cancer
There are an increasing number of genetic clues from animals that could provide hints to treating aging and age related ...
With global gene editing slow down, what’s the future of ‘designer babies?’
The prospect of designer babies--the stuff of futuristic movies--is now upon us with the advent of gene editing, stirring confusion ...
Promising gene therapy could help kill tumors
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Cancer scientists toiling in ...
Promising optogenetics procedure may restore sight to blind
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If all goes according ...
Gene editing on human embryos would not create ‘designer babies’
Despite some concerns over 'super-humans' and 'designer babies,' genome editing of human embryos likely to produce only modest edits to ...
Gene therapy successfully cures hemophilia in dogs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Hemophilia was once popularly ...
Blindness causing gene corrected by CRISPR in stem cells
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers used CRISPR to ...
Hannah’s year: Gene transfer treatment gives hope to curing rare neurodegenerative disease
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Eleven-year-old Hannah Sames can ...
CRISPR-based gene therapy may provide cure to Duchenne muscular dystrophy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In an amazing, salutary ...
Gene therapy is doing all that we’d hoped for* *(so far)
New gene therapies are showing evidence of advancing our treatment of genetic diseases. Scientists are 5 years along the 15 ...
Human genetic modification may promise cures for some diseases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “Human gene therapy” has ...
Gene editing propels search for Duchenne muscular dystrophy cure
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After decades of disappointingly ...
CRISPR edited bacteria hold great potential for cultured foods, probiotics, list goes on
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The on-going CRISPR craze ...
Language matters when reporting gene editing stories
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Center for Genetics ...
How will mainstream medicine balance lifesaving potential, cost of gene therapy?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. First tested in patients ...
Gene therapy, not editing, saved baby Layla
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I had planned to ...
Gene therapy saves life of one-year-old with leukemia in medical first
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For the first time ...
Gene therapy on brink of golden age: Here’s why
Just as vaccination began first for smallpox, then expanded to a handful of other diseases and has since expanded to ...