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Why Gene Therapy Caused Leukemia In Some "Boy In The Bubble Syndrome" Patients (Medical News Today)

Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), sometimes called 'Boy in the bubble syndrome', is a genetic disorder in which the patient lacks most types of immune cell. Almost 10 years ago, two independent groups (one in London, United Kingdom, and one in Paris, France) used gene therapy to treat a few infants with the most common form of SCID, SCID-X1, which is caused by mutations in the IL2RG gene.

Action Duchenne Provides Â£150k For Gene Therapy Research For New Treatment For Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (Medical News Today)

Research Scientists at Oxford University have received Â£150k raised by Action Duchenne to fund the latest research into 'Exon skipping', a gene therapy approach to treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Pancreatic cancer gene therapy is created (UPI)

RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. cancer researchers say they have developed a chemoprevention gene therapy that successfully kills pancreatic cancer cells.

Pancreatic cancer gene therapy is created (Moldova.org)

U.S. cancer researchers say they have developed a chemoprevention gene therapy that successfully kills pancreatic cancer cells.Scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University's Massey Cancer Center and Institute of Molecular Medicine discovered combining a dietary agent with a gene-delivered cytokine effectively eliminates human pancreatic cancer cells in mice.Cytokines are a category of proteins ...

Researchers Publish Findings Of A New Chemoprevention Gene Therapy That Kills Pancreatic Cancer Cells (Medical News Today)

Researchers at the Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and the VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine have published findings that implicate a new chemoprevention gene therapy (CGT) for preventing and treating pancreatic cancer, one of the most lethal and treatment-resistant forms of cancer.