gene therapy

Three US citizens who lost their sight in childhood have reported a dramatic improvement in vision after having gene therapy in both eyes.

Functionally blind for many years, Tami Morehouse calls the gene therapy that partially restored her sight nothing short of a miracle.

Gene therapy could reduce the need for medication in haemophilia B patients.

ATLANTA (AP) -- In what's being called a landmark study, researchers used gene therapy to successfully treat six patients with severe hemophilia, a blood-clotting disorder....

New method boosts blood-clotting for hemophiliacs Associated Press

Researchers are testing a treatment for hemophilia that uses a single injection to fix the genetic defect.

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) Symptoms improved significantly in adults with the bleeding disorder hemophilia B following a single treatment with gene therapy developed by researchers at St.

Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis and demonstrated to be safe in a clinical trial conducted at the University College London in the U.K.

Two of the holy grails of medicine - stem cell technology and precision gene therapy - have been united for the first time in humans, say researchers.

CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- A gene-based treatment for HIV was safe and well tolerated in two small clinical trials, a first step toward a so-called "functional cure," researchers said here.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists are reporting the first clear success with gene therapy to treat leukemia, turning the patients' own blood cells into assasins that hunt down and wipe out their cancer....