Alcoholism: gene therapy could cure it
© Shutterstock / Africa StudioDespite therapy and remissions, it happens that alcoholics relapse. Scientists are looking for an effective way ...
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Testimonial: “Became visually impaired, gene therapy gave me back a fragment of vision”
© DRThe first time my eyes go out is in the insolent light of the Indian summer of September 2014. ...
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BRCA1 gene: “I am considering a preventive mastectomy”
© Jane RousselIt is 7:50 a.m., April 1st. The sun rises in the mist above the dunes of Lompoul, and ...
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BRCA1 gene also linked to Alzheimer’s disease
© iStockPhotosThe BRCA1 gene mutation that some now call "the Angelina Jolie gene" since the actress announced that she had ...
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Gene therapy: a new way to treat Alzheimer’s
© iStockPhotosNo effective treatment yet, this is the heavy observation that doctors make about Alzheimer's disease. What if the path ...
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Childhood hemiplegia: a new responsible gene has just been discovered
© Shutterstock / CryptographerSometimes children, usually under the age of 18 months, experience paralysis of one half of the body, ...
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Hemophilia: a gene therapy trial restores coagulation
© Shutterstock / luchschenFIt is estimated that around 8,000 people in France suffer from hemophilia, a genetic disease that prevents ...
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Alzheimer’s: a gene may delay the development of the disease
This discovery by researchers from the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and McGill University in Montreal was presented at the ...
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Epilepsy: mutations of a gene responsible for seizures
© iStockphoto Mutations in the GRIN2A gene could be involved in the occurrence of epileptic encephalopathies. Unlike “classic” seizures, this ...
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Alzheimer’s disease: a gene would double the risk
In the United States, black Americans are more affected than whites by the late form of Alzheimer's disease. Does this ...
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Headache: discovery of the gene responsible for recurrent migraines
© iStockPhotoEmily Bates, a professor at the University of Utah, may have discovered the culprit behind the recurring migraines she ...
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Alzheimer’s: gene therapy to rescue memory loss
© istockThe study made the front page of the famous American journal Journal of Neuroscience. For good reason, this is ...
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Autism: a new gene model has been identified
© iStockphotoScientists from the University of Oxford, in collaboration with other institutes including an Inserm-CNRS unit, have succeeded in identifying ...
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A gene responsible for multiple sclerosis?
A gene for multiple sclerosis has been identified, according to the results of a study published in the journal Neuron. ...
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Sickle cell disease: hope for treatment with gene therapy
© Getty ImagesWorldwide, 300,000 people are diagnosed with sickle cell disease each year. In France, it is the most widespread ...
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Gene therapy: hope for patients with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy
© Getty Images/iStockphotoHave you ever heard of Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy? LHON is a rare inherited disease that affects around ...
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Cardiovascular diseases: a gene discovered in women
© iStockPhotosA study led by researchers at University College London shows that women carrying the BCAR1 gene are more likely ...
Read moreBRCA1 gene also linked to Alzheimer’s disease
© iStockPhotosThe BRCA1 gene mutation that some now call "the Angelina Jolie gene" since the actress announced that she had ...
Read moreGene therapy: a new way to treat Alzheimer’s
© iStockPhotosNo effective treatment yet, this is the heavy observation that doctors make about Alzheimer's disease. What if the path ...
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The health benefit of the gene that makes carrots orange
© ThinkstockWhy are carrots orange? It is thanks to a pigment, the carotene, present in abundance in these tubers. Researchers ...
Read moreAlzheimer’s: a gene may delay the development of the disease
This discovery by researchers from the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and McGill University in Montreal was presented at the ...
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Tobacco attacks the protective gene of the arteries
© ThinkstockTobacco is a risk factor for coronary heart disease because it suppresses the effect of a protective gene for ...
Read moreEpilepsy: mutations in a gene responsible for seizures
© iStockphoto Mutations in the GRIN2A gene could be involved in the occurrence of epileptic encephalopathies. Unlike “classic” seizures, this ...
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a trial gene therapy, a first in France
© Getty Images / Tetra images RFThe Duchenne muscular dystrophy is currently incurable. But a candidate treatment has just been ...
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Gene therapy: 4 bubble children left their sterile room
As part of a Franco-American therapeutic trial, 9 children with severe X-linked immunodeficiency (a very rare hereditary disease that mainly ...
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World deafness day: the hope of gene therapy
© ThinkstockThis Saturday, September 23, 2017, is World Deaf Day. The opportunity to recall that in France, 5 million people ...
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Sickle cell disease: a first patient treated in France by gene therapy
© iStockPhotosResearchers from the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital (Paris) have just published in the New England journal of medicine the results ...
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The trail of gene therapy to treat Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
© istockResearchers at Necker Hospital with the help of scientists in London have succeeded in improving the immune system of ...
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A gene could reduce the risk of heart attacks
© ThinkstockNew hope in the prevention of cardiovascular illnesses. People with a specific mutation in a gene have a 50% ...
Read moreAlzheimer’s disease: a gene would double the risk
In the United States, black Americans are more affected than whites from the late form of Alzheimer's disease. Does this ...
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