The green light of gene therapy
The EU authorities have allowed the use of gene therapy for the treatment of Burger-Greutz syndrome – a hereditary deficiency of lipoprotein lipase, in which the patient's body is unable to digest fats.
16.08.2012The EU authorities have allowed the use of gene therapy for the treatment of Burger-Greutz syndrome – a hereditary deficiency of lipoprotein lipase, in which the patient's body is unable to digest fats.
16.08.2012Even today, many experts secretly say that modern Olympic champions often gain an advantage over competitors thanks to genetic engineering.
14.08.2012The new adenovirus vector allows the delivery of large genes necessary for the restoration of muscle tissue functions in hereditary myodystrophy to the affected cells.
10.07.2012The complex of mutations will increase the stability of therapeutic antibodies and, accordingly, the quality of treatment of many diseases, including oncological and inflammatory.
29.06.2012Pigs with human disease genes are a much better model than rodents, but the FDA has not yet decided whether these animals can be used for experiments.
27.06.2012Osamu Shimomura, who received green fluorescent protein (GFP) for the first time, began leading a project to study bioluminescent biotechnologies at the Siberian Federal University.
22.06.2012American biologists modified the genome of the lactic acid Bacillus Lactobacillus acidophilus in such a way that this bacterium began to destroy polyps – precancerous formations in the colon of mice.
13.06.2012Usually cellular biocomputers are created for use in bacteria, so the work done on mammalian cells has additional value for biologists.
05.06.2012The molecules of the modified luminescent luciferase protein emit five times more light than their natural counterparts.
22.05.2012So far, only one bit of information can be recorded, overwritten and stored in hundreds of generations in the DNA of E. coli. The next step will be to create a bacterial memory that stores eight bits (one byte).
22.05.2012The researchers hope that their method of introducing a working copy of the gene into the brain can be used to treat parkinsonism and other diseases associated with impaired protein synthesis in neurons.
21.05.2012A good result has so far been achieved only in mice no older than two weeks. But the results obtained confirm the possibility of gene therapy for sensorineural hearing loss – hearing loss caused by a violation of the functions of hair cells.
14.05.2012For direct reprogramming of cells of scar tissue formed during infarction – fibroblasts – into cardiomyocytes, American scientists used microRNAs.
02.05.2012An alternative to natural carriers of genetic information, RNA and DNA – xenonucleic acids, capable of transmitting genetic information, have been synthesized in the laboratory.
20.04.2012Gene therapy allowed scientists to transform cells of a postinfarction scar forming on the myocardium of mice into contracting cardiomyocytes.
20.04.2012Modified human hematopoietic stem cells differentiate into HIV-specific CD8 T lymphocytes and destroy infected cells in the animal model.
13.04.2012At the Novosibirsk Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, work is underway to create a microchip DNA synthesizer.
12.04.2012Six rodents participated in the experiment on the ISS – three transgenic mice and three control mice. Rodents with increased pleiotrophin production lost 3% of bone tissue in 91 days, while the spine of ordinary mice lost 41.5% of its mass.
09.04.2012Genetic engineering allows you to "teach" living organisms and their individual cells to glow the way sea jellyfish glow. Ilya Yampolsky, Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Senior Researcher, IBH RAS, tells about the possibilities and prospects of bioluminescence.
06.04.2012The synthetic genome will make it possible to create economically profitable biofuels, make a vaccine against a new strain of influenza in an hour, as well as new food products, according to the pioneer of synthetic biology Craig Venter.
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