Gene Therapy: News & Videos about Gene Therapy - CNN.comhttp://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Gene_TherapyFind stories, videos, and photos about Gene Therapy from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:57:16 GMT5Gene Therapy: News & Videos about Gene Therapy - CNN.comhttp://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2008/HEALTH/dailydose/11/20/genetic.treatment.blindness/tztop.genetic.treatment.blindness.jpghttp://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Gene_Therapy14433Find stories, videos, and photos about Gene Therapy from CNN.com.Gene therapy aids vision for 3 with rare blindnesshttp://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/dailydose/11/20/genetic.treatment.blindness/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/dailydose/11/20/genetic.treatment.blindness/index.html#cnnSTCTextResearchers at the University of Pennsylvania announced in April 2008 the use of an innovative gene therapy treatment to safely restore vision in three adults with a rare form of congenital blindness. The technique involves an injection that delivers DNA to the nucleus of a cell so it can begin making the protein that the blind patients don't have. Although the patients have not achieved normal eyesight, the results set the stage for possible treatment of other retinal diseases.Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:53:00 ESTSteroids In America: The Futurehttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/magazine/03/11/steroids.future/index.htmlhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/magazine/03/11/steroids.future/index.htmlI am one of the most avid sports fans you'll find," Se-Jin Lee says. It's true. He'll watch anything. Basketball. Football. Fútbol. Billiards on channel seven-hundred-whatever. As a graduate student in the '80s Lee used to sit in his car in the driveway with the radio on to listen to the games of faraway baseball teams. Even now, in his lab at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, he easily rattles off the NCAA basketball tournament winners in order from 1964 to 2007. And, like anyone who values fair competition these days, he's disturbed by the issue of performance-enhancing drugs in sports.Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:52:00 EDTA Gene to Cure Blindnesshttp://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1623086,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1623086,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsA procedure that replaces faulty genes in the blind might hold cures for all kinds of genetic diseases and for cancerFri, 25 May 2007 19:40:00 EDTCommon virus 'kills cancer'http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/06/22/cancer.virus/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/06/22/cancer.virus/index.htmlA common virus that is harmless to people can destroy cancerous cells in the body and might be developed into a new cancer therapy, US researchers said.Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:44:00 EDTCan Gene Therapy Cure This Child? The money is short and the science controversial, but a lot more than business rides on a biothttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/05/01/278933/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/05/01/278933/index.htmLoss threatens young biotech companies in more forms than any other kind of business. Investors can lose millions when a promising drug fails to work or funds run out before testing is complete. Re...Mon, 01 May 2000 04:01:00 EDTBlessings From The Book of Life Decoding the human genome will yield a bounty of biotech miracles that will transform our lives http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/03/06/275208/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/03/06/275208/index.htmIn 1998 biotechnology's jauntiest visionary, J. Craig Venter, stunned fellow scientists by declaring that a company he was forming would decode human DNA's sequence of chemical building blocks by t...Mon, 06 Mar 2000 05:01:00 ESTWash That Gray Right Out of Your Hair THE REVIVAL OF GENE THERAPYhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/02/07/272841/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/02/07/272841/index.htmA breakthrough by a group of researchers in Philadelphia may help reinvigorate the struggling field of gene therapy and portend a future in which Just For Men hair color is history. Mon, 07 Feb 2000 05:01:00 ESTTHE NEW ATTACK ON KILLER DISEASES There's fresh hope for ailments from cancer to Alzheimer's. 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