Gene Therapy

Potential HIV Breakthrough

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: HIV Gene Therapy, Video, AIDS Treatment, HIV Drugs, Sb-728-T, Hiv Studies, HIV Breakthrough, Hiv Treatment, AIDS Drugs, Gene Therapy, Healthy Living News

Researchers like what they've seen so far from a new HIV gene therapy treatment. From Reuters: An early stage trial of Sangamo BioSciences Inc's...

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WATCH: Is It Possible to Cure Aging?

Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Aging, Video, Longevity, Health, Gene Therapy, Aubrey De Gray, Science, Stem Cell Research, Medicine, Healthy Living News

The first person to reach age 150 may have already been born, according to one British scientist. And the first person to live to be 1,000 years o...

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Major Gaps In Oversight Of Human Medical Research

HuffPost Investigative Fund | By Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Columbia Heart Study, Jerry Menikoff, Columbia University Medical Center, Gene Therapy, Human Test Subjects, Fda, Hetastarch, New York News, Cardiac Surgery, Hextend, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Columbia University Heart Study, Human Research Protections, Politics News

Ten years ago, an 18-year-old student named Jesse Gelsinger died during a medical research trial involving gene therapy at the University of Pennsylva...

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Study Shows Hope For Type Of Blindness

Wall Street Journal | By RON WINSLOW | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Eyesight, Sight, Kids, Braille, Blind, Children, Blindness, Leber's Congenital Amaurosis, Health, Gene Therapy, Medicine, Study, rpe65, Healthy Living News

A small but provocative study showed that a form of gene therapy significantly improved the vision of patients left legally blind by a rare genetic ey...

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