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    Gene therapy is a medical technology that aims to produce a therapeutic effect through the manipulation of gene expression or through altering the biological...
    172 KB (17,769 words) - 01:31, 8 May 2024
  • This article contains a list of commercially available gene therapies. Alipogene tiparvovec (Glybera): AAV-based treatment for lipoprotein lipase deficiency...
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    somatic cell line, and thus its host organism. Gene delivery is a necessary step in gene therapy for the introduction or silencing of a gene to promote a therapeutic...
    24 KB (2,869 words) - 16:15, 28 August 2023
  • for opsin genes. Animal testing for gene therapy began in 2007 with a 2009 breakthrough in squirrel monkeys suggesting an imminent gene therapy in humans...
    18 KB (2,336 words) - 18:26, 1 May 2024
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    Gene therapy utilizes the delivery of DNA into cells, which can be accomplished by several methods, summarized below. The two major classes of methods...
    36 KB (4,918 words) - 09:36, 27 February 2024
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    Lentiviral vectors in gene therapy is a method by which genes can be inserted, modified, or deleted in organisms using lentiviruses. Lentiviruses are...
    29 KB (3,448 words) - 01:15, 19 February 2024
  • striatum is another alternative gene therapy. This therapy consists on transferring the TH and GTP cyclohydrolase 1 genes into the MSNs because the endogenous...
    14 KB (1,819 words) - 05:17, 18 December 2023
  • as infectious diseases and neurodegenerative disorders. Gene silencing is often considered the same as gene knockdown. When genes are silenced, their expression...
    48 KB (5,608 words) - 02:20, 6 February 2024
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    categories: caretaker genes, gatekeeper genes, and more recently landscaper genes. Caretaker genes ensure stability of the genome via DNA repair and subsequently...
    30 KB (3,406 words) - 23:46, 11 April 2024
  • introduction (through gene therapy) of suicide genes is a potential way of treating cancer or other proliferative diseases. Suicide genes form the basis of...
    16 KB (2,163 words) - 19:30, 6 April 2024
  • Gene therapy for osteoarthritis is the application of gene therapy to treat osteoarthritis (OA). Unlike pharmacological treatments which are administered...
    45 KB (5,295 words) - 21:47, 9 February 2024
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    modulate gene expression by targeting dCas9-repressors or activators toward promoter or transcriptional start sites of target genes. For repressing genes Cas9...
    150 KB (17,439 words) - 13:58, 7 May 2024
  • zebrafish, and mice. In mice, gene knockouts are commonly used to study the function of specific genes in development, physiology, and cancer research...
    21 KB (2,524 words) - 18:03, 29 April 2024
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    Gene doping is the hypothetical non-therapeutic use of gene therapy by athletes in order to improve their performance in those sporting events which prohibit...
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    functional RNA. There are two types of molecular genes: protein-coding genes and non-coding genes. During gene expression, DNA is first copied into RNA. RNA...
    112 KB (12,720 words) - 21:30, 18 May 2024
  • Novartis Gene Therapies, until 2020 known as AveXis, is a biotechnology company that develops treatments for rare neurological genetic disorders. It was...
    9 KB (767 words) - 16:35, 12 May 2024
  • Retinal gene therapy holds a promise in treating different forms of non-inherited and inherited blindness. In 2008, three independent research groups...
    37 KB (4,699 words) - 05:18, 18 December 2023
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    Sio Gene Therapies, Inc. (formerly known as Axovant Gene Therapies) was a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company that developed gene therapies to treat...
    16 KB (1,263 words) - 20:54, 11 May 2024
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    genetics, a regulator gene, regulator, or regulatory gene is a gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes. Regulatory sequences...
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    rate and these genes can be used as a reference point in experiments to measure the expression rates of other genes. A facultative gene is a gene only...
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