ABSTRACT: Bombyx mori cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus is one of the major viral pathogens for the silkworm. The immune response of silkworm to the virus infection is obscure. A ...

Sarepta Therapeutics is still assessing how best to prevent liver injury from its commercialized Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy. But Sarepta partner Hansa Biopharma has encouraging ...

Gene therapy (introducing genetic material into living cells to fix, replace, enhance, or block a faulty gene) is rapidly gaining traction as a strategy for the treatment of genetic diseases. The ...

A pair of clinical data sets gives Novartis confidence in a new formulation of the company’s gene therapy Zolgensma for the treatment of older patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Among SMA ...

Two-year data showed significant functional improvements in patients treated with delandistrogene moxeparvovec compared to controls, despite initial trial endpoint failure. The treated group exhibited ...

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Data from the pacemaker of Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman suggests he probably died nine days before investigators discovered his body and that of his wife in their Santa Fe, New Mexico, home, ...

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Recent research takes aim at the a variant in gene SCN1B, which causes a severe form of developmental epileptic encephalopathy. Dravet syndrome and other developmental epileptic encephalopathies are ...