Gene therapy

A new drug combination jump-starts the body’s ability to fight cancer

Stress alters the expression of small RNAs in male mice and leads to depressive behaviors in later generations

The organs, grown from the patients' own cells, are showing normal functions for the four young women

The director of the agency's Center for Regenerative Medicine resigned on March 28 after just one clinical-trial award had been made

Poverty and unstable family environments shorten chromosome-protecting telomeres in nine-year-olds

Targeting a microRNA in liver cells could disable a silent killer

The approach involves using enzymes to destroy a gene in the immune cells of people with HIV, thereby increasing resistance to the virus

Techniques for getting past the immune system are key to safe and effective treatment

Injections of a normally silent gene sparked recovery in pigs induced to have heart attacks
 

We shield social security numbers, conceal credit cards and shred sensitive records. Now it's time to think about how closely we guard our genomes

Major or clinical depression seems to alter the genes that regulate sleep and waking

In this excerpt from Shouting Won’t Help, journalist Katherine Bouton surveys cutting-edge research into biological ways to reverse the “sensioneural” hearing loss that she and millions of others suffer, caused by impaired function of the inner ear