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Researchers shed light on how to restore nerve cells after injury
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Salk researchers identified a way to repair destroyed nerves in mice during peripheral neuropathy. They discovered that the protein Mitf aids in the activation of the repair function of the nervous system's specialist Schwann cells.
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Researchers give insight into repairing nerve cells after injury, in chron
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Each year, more than 3 million people in the United States suffer from peripheral neuropathy, a condition in which nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord are destroyed, resulting in pain and loss of feeling in the afflicted areas. Diabetes, injuries, genetically inherited disease, infe
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Study gives more insight into understanding cancer risk in gene therapies
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers have shown promising results about the potential of gene therapy to heal genetic disorders such as sickle cell disease, and the findings of this study, published in Nature Medicine, offer vital new insights into processes that occur in the body following treatment.
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Study finds method of delivering clinically used gene therapy vectors
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Researchers used a noninvasive, ultrasound-based technique to investigate the safety and feasibility of gene delivery to numerous brain regions in rats, and their findings suggest that as more locations are opened, gene delivery effectiveness improves within each targeted site.
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Study finds way to deliver clinically used gene therapy vectors
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Researchers examined the safety and practicality of gene delivery to several brain regions in animals using a noninvasive, ultrasound-based approach, and their findings imply that when more locations are opened, gene delivery effectiveness improves within each targeted site.
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Researchers reveal how prealbumin gene alone is insufficient for heart fai
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
In a study that was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, researchers found that a blood test that analyzes the transthyretin or prealbumin protein could be used to diagnose transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy and to prompt more thorough imaging examinations.
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Study finds how weaker immune response to viral infections in children wit
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) discovered in a recent study that infants with mitochondrial abnormalities had altered B cell function, which resulted in a weaker and less varied antibody response to viral infections. Researchers at the National Human Genome Research
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Genetic mutations direct immune defences in leukaemia linked rare bone mar
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
A discovery that may result in novel medicines to halt or reverse the disease could be beneficial to patients with a rare genetic bone marrow problem who are at an elevated risk of blood malignancies.
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Study finds how some motor neuron disease, dementia patients share rare ge
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
According to a new study, some persons with motor neuron disease (MND) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) share the same rare genetic diseases that cause other neurodegenerative illnesses.
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Some motor neuron disease, dementia patients share genetic defects: Resear
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Some people with motor neuron disease (MND) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) have the same uncommon genetic disorders that cause other neurodegenerative illnesses, according to a new study.
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Study reveals how gene mutation associated with heart disease
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
People may learn they have a gene mutation linked to some types of cardiovascular disease as the usage of genetic testing increases (CVD).
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Researchers find toxic protein linked to muscular dystrophy, arhinia
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their colleagues have found that a toxic protein made by the body called DUX4 may be the cause of two very different rare genetic disorders.
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