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Scientists found a way to make the HIV virus visible, potentially laying the groundwork for ways to banish it from the body altogether.
Health & Medicine

“Gasping”: Scientists Make Breakthrough Toward Full Cure for HIV

By Victor Tangermann

During an important Pfizer medical trial a young boy suffered a fatal sudden cardiac arrest after receiving experimental gene therapy.
Gene Editing

Young Patient Dies After Receiving Pfizer Gene Therapy

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists from Texas have developed a method to control gene expression by switching them on and off via molecular means.
Developments

Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Way to Turn Genes On and Off Like Light Switches

By Sharon Adarlo

A team of researchers has kicked off the first-ever trial of a gene therapy that they say can cure a type of deafness.
Gene Editing

Doctors Testing Gene Therapy to Cure a Type of Deafness

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists took a bunch of alcoholic macaque monkeys and then successfully weaned them off alcohol after a round of gene therapy.
Gene Editing

New Gene Therapy Dramatically Reduces Booze Consumption in Alcoholic Monkeys

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers discovered a new mechanism that could force cancer cells to self-destruct, hijacking their ability to replicate uncontrollably.
Cancer

Scientists Intrigued by Clever Trick That Makes Cancer Cells Self-Destruct

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primates, potentially laying the groundwork for human treatment.
Gene Editing

Gene Therapy Gives Primates Young Eyes Again

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Harvard Medical School scientists has come up with a new drug-like cocktail of molecules that can successfully regenerate hair cells.
Gene Editing

Scientists May Have Figured Out How to Regenerate Lost Hearing

By Victor Tangermann

San Diego-based biotech startup Rejuvenate Bio has claimed that its technology was able to extend the lives of old mice.
Gene Editing

Scientists Say They Gene Hacked Mice to Double Remaining Lifespan

By Victor Tangermann

Hemgenix is the latest form of a gene therapy drug to be approved by the FDA, and it's now the most expensive drug in the world. Too expensive.
Health & Medicine

18-Year-Old Patient Says $3.5 Million Hemophilia Drug He Needs Seems a “Little Steep”

By Frank Landymore

Using a new gene therapy technique, researchers at the University of California San Diego reduced neuropathic pain in mice that were experiencing spinal cord or other nerve injuries — and with no side effects.
Gene Editing

Scientists Eliminate Chronic Pain in Mice and Primates Using Gene Therapy

By Victor Tangermann

An experimental gene therapy drastically improved the eyesight — and ability to see color — of volunteers with a rare genetic condition.
RX and Medicine

Gene Therapy Restored Vision To Patient Who Hadn’t Seen Colors in Years

By Dan Robitzski

Four Patients Die After Experimental Gene Therapy
Health & Medicine

Four Patients Die After Experimental Gene Therapy

By Tony Ho Tran

A new gene therapy partially restored a blind man's vision by programming his cells to produce the light-sensitive protein found in algae.
Gene Editing

Doctors Restored a Blind Man’s Vision by Gene-Hacking His Retina Cells

By Dan Robitzski

A new gene therapy for SCID, also known as "bubble baby" disease, uses HIV to deliver healthy genes that replace mutated ones.
Gene Editing

Scientists Turned HIV Into a Life-Saving Gene Therapy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists accidentally discovered that their experimental gene therapy could restore a blind patient's vision for over 15 months.
Gene Editing

Gene Therapy Injected Into Eyeball Restores Blind Patient’s Vision

By Dan Robitzski