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High levels of lipids in blood found to protect against allergies

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These lipids cause genes that play a key role in allergic reactions to be less active. Researchers from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have published an article about this in Nature Communications.

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NIH-supported scientists demonstrate how genetic variations cause eczema

Scienmag

Finding could lead to genetic tests that identify infants at risk for the disease Credit: NIAID WHAT: New research supported by the National Institutes of Health delineates how two relatively common variations in a gene called KIF3A are responsible for an impaired skin barrier that allows increased water loss from the skin, promoting the development (..)

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Stem cell therapy ‘cures’ first woman with HIV, say researchers

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A woman with HIV who received a stem cell transplant to treat acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) appears to have been cured of the infection according to US researchers. She received a cord blood transplant to treat the AML, receiving stem cells carrying a genetic mutation (CCR? “This third case of HIV remission suggests that CCR?5/?32

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Medical oddity reveals unheard-of ‘immunity gene’ mutations and new way to screen them

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Researchers baffled by an infant’s rare encephalitis case unusual in children found unheard-of mutations and a new way to examine the ‘immunity gene’ Credit: Satoshi Okada An infant’s odd case of rare encephalitis not typically found in children led researchers to discover never before seen genetic mutations and a more accurate (..)

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COVID-19: Scientists identify human genes that fight infection

Scienmag

– April 16, 2021 – Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have identified a set of human genes that fight SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19. Credit: Dotted Yeti LA JOLLA, CALIF.

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Cellular benefits of gene therapy seen decades after treatment

Scienmag

An international collaboration between Great Ormond Street Hospital, the UCL GOS Institute for Child Health and Harvard Medical School has shown that the beneficial effects of gene therapy can be seen decades after the transplanted blood stem cells has been cleared by the body.

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Gene therapy offers a potential cure to children born without immune system

Scienmag

An international team of researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a gene therapy that successfully treated 48 out of 50 children with a form of severe combined immunodeficiency that leaves them without an immune system.