RICHMOND, Calif., - Sangamo BioSciences, Inc., announced that the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has granted the Company a $6.4 million Strategic Partnership Award to develop a potentially curative ZFP Therapeutic for beta-thalassemia based on the application of its zinc The

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Dr Paul Emerson, trachoma control programme director, The Carter Centre, Atlanta, USANTDs aren't as remote or obscure as many think: Trachoma and worms used to be endemic to the US and Europe, but were eliminated through improvements in hygiene, sanitation and access to medical care. NTDs still af

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A one-year-old whose face is paralyzed due to an extremely rare neurological condition is set to undergo groundbreaking surgery that will see him smile for the first timePreston Tassi from Des Moines, Iowa, is one of several thousand people worldwide who suffers from Moebius Syndrome, which means

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This is the finding made by a team headed by Prof. Gil Ast and Dr. Ron Bochner of Tel Aviv University`s Department of Human Molecular GeneticsWidely available in pharmacies and health stores, phosphatidylserine is proven to improve cognition and slow memory loss and it`s a popular treatment for ol

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(NAPSI) - While the bonds that unite families are usually associated with positive events, such as weddings or holidays, those bonds can be more challenging when entire families are impacted by a hereditary disease. Christie Hardin knows this firsthand. For years, she and more than 30 members of L

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Like most 3-year-olds, Lee Cicirelli, enjoys playing outside and being the conductor of his train set, but Lee isn't like most kids his age"Lee is our extra special Superman," said his mother, Mary Ann CicirelliMary Ann said her son was born eight weeks early and had some webbi

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University of Montreal researchers have discovered a novel molecular mechanism that can potentially slow the progression of some cancers and other diseases of abnormal growth. In the May 23 edition of the prestigious journal Cell, scientists from the University of Montreal explain how they found

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Nearly two-thirds of patients with high-risk neuroblastoma —a common tumor that forms in the nerve cells of children—cannot be cured using tumor-killing cancer drugs. A study published by Cell Press in the May 23 issue of Chemistry & Biology reveals a new genomic approach to screen for compound

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Gaucher disease causes debilitating and sometimes fatal neurodegeneration in early childhood. Recent studies have uncovered a link between the mutations responsible for Gaucher disease and an increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease later in life. New research published online on May 23 in

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Researchers at Lund University have succeeded in preventing very early symptoms of Huntington's disease, depression and anxiety, by deactivating the mutated huntingtin protein in the brains of mice"We are the first to show that it is possible to prevent the depression symptoms of Huntington's dise

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