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New gene therapy shows potential for restoring hearing loss
Researchers have developed a novel gene therapy that can improve hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness or severe hearing impairment.
Gene therapy holds promise for blood disorder haemophilia: Doctors
17 April 2024 12:20 PM ISTWorld Haemophilia Day is observed every year on April 17 to raise awareness of the debilitating blood disorder, caused by missing or defective factor...
Gene therapy improves advanced heart failure in animal model: Study
14 Feb 2024 1:59 PM ISTIf there is too much scarring, the heart gradually enlarges (dilates), weakens, and eventually ceases working.
Medical challenges: When a cure comes too late
2 Feb 2024 11:00 AM ISTGene therapy has seen remarkable and highly publicized success in recent months, especially with the FDA’s approval of what amounts to cures for...
New AI model designs proteins to deliver gene therapy
30 Jan 2024 6:00 PM ISTTo overcome this shortcoming, Garton's lab used AI to custom-design variants of hexons that are distinct from natural sequences.
New gene therapy restores hearing in kids with hereditary deafness
25 Jan 2024 2:30 PM ISTHearing loss affects more than 1.5 billion people worldwide, with congenital deafness making up about 26 million of those individuals
Sickle cell affects more families in Africa and India, but new gene...
16 Dec 2023 2:30 PM ISTFor gene therapy to even be an option, people in developing nations must stay alive long enough to get it.
UK approves world’s 1st gene therapy to treat sickle-cell, thalassemia
18 Nov 2023 3:00 PM ISTBoth sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia are genetic conditions caused by errors in the genes for haemoglobin, which is used by red blood cells...