All the stories tagged with gene therapy

You Will Be Able To Change Your Genes To Fight Diseases Next Year

11/05/2012, Glybera is a drug meant to fight a very rare disorder: Lipoprotein lipase deficiency ,(LPLD) which prevents patients from metabolizing certain fat enzymes in the blood . It does this by modifying a patient’s DNA, and the European Commission has approved it for public use and [...]

HIV virus receives double blow from new gene therapy

09/22/2011, Not even a week has passed since gamers were enlisted to help crack the AIDS puzzle that we have word which might just put the HIV virus on the ropes – for good. It seems that a new groundbreaking gene [...]