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New gene delivery vehicle shows promise for human brain gene therapy
Medical Xpress· 14 hours agoThe enormous challenge of getting therapies past this barrier—a highly selective membrane separating the blood from the brain—has stymied the development of safer and more effective
Epiregulin: The Growth Factor Redefining Human Brain Evolution
SciTechDaily· 12 hours agoAccording to neurobiologists, it is our neocortex. This outer layer of the brain is rich in neurons...
... with Novel Cardiotropic and BBB-Penetrant AAV Capsids at the American Society of Gene & Cell...
FOX21 Colorado Springs· 7 days agoAffinia Therapeutics ("Affinia"), an innovative gene therapy company with a proprietary platform for rationally designed adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors and ...
...BioTherapeutics Announces Publication Demonstrating Carbonic Anhydrase-8 Gene Therapy (rdHSV-CA8)...
Digital Journal· 15 hours agoFindings highlight the advantages of Adolore's approach for the delivery of proprietary gene therapy directly to specialized pain-sensing peripheral nerves (nociceptors) that ...
First Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Transplant Patient Dies After 2 Months
iTech Post· 4 days agoA team from Massachusetts General managed to successfully transplant a gene-edited pig kidney to a ...
How Gene Editing Therapies Could Go Beyond Rare Diseases
Forbes· 1 day agoEarlier this year, a group of scientists in the Netherlands used the gene editing tool CRISPR to...
Man who received 1st pig kidney transplant has died. Why experts say animal organs could still 'turn...
Yahoo Life· 4 days agoHere’s what to know. What happened in the latest animal organ transplant? Slayman, who had end-stage...
For its first season ever without elephants, Circus World will have a human cannonball
Gannett via AOL· 7 days agoA three-generation Hungarian circus family, the Petrovs, will perform a variety of acts,...
Genetic Signatures of a Defective Heart
The Scientist· 3 days agoThe making of the human heart is a complex process, and problems in heart development can result in congenital heart defects (CHD). In a recent study, researchers sought to pinpoint the genes on chromosome 21 implicated in CHD.
Progranulin AAV gene therapy for frontotemporal dementia: translational studies and phase 1/2 trial...
Nature· 3 days agoAll procedures in the protocol were in compliance with applicable animal welfare acts and were approved by the local IACUC. The study design was based on the principles of ...