Gene Therapy and Stem Cell Therapy
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This week's podcast is live from the British Society for Gene Therapy (BSGT) conference in Brighton, UK. Some of the world's top gene and stem cell therapists explain how we can manipulate genes to treat a variety of disorders, from cystic fibrosis and haemophilia to cancer and blindness. We hear what life is like as a haemophiliac and answer your questions, including whether gene therapy can alter all the cells in our bodies and how scientists account for the ethics and side effects of this research. Plus, is a human moustache like a cat's whiskers? Find out in Question of the Week!
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Haemophilia is a disorder of blood clotting factors, leading to excessive bleeding in patients. To find out what it's like to live with the condition, Meera Senthilingam met Adam Jones...
Kathy High explains how changing the expression of genes can help treat diseases such as Haemophilia...
Iain McNeish discusses how adenoviruses could be used to find and kill cancerous cells within the body...
Simon Waddington explains how you could use gene therapy to treat certain disorders as early as in the womb...
Rob MacLaren explores how we can manipulate genes to restore vision in patients with inherited blindness...
You’ll remember, in the film Jurassic Park scientists manage to reconstruct dinosaurs from DNA preserved for tens of millions of years. Sadly for killer dinosaur fans, DNA doesn’t appear to last that long…but it turns out that proteins do...
Maria Limberis explores how respiratory disorders such as Cystic Fibrosis can be targeted by gene therapy...
Is it possible to alter genes on an orgamism-wide scale?
Have methods to anticipate undesirable effects of a new therapy been improved since previous failed attempts? Has legal regulation of new therapies been enhanced over the past decade or so?
I have heard of many promising and almost unbelievable successes resulting from stem cell...
What do epigenetics mean for stem cell therapy? It's not just the genome that seems to count but also the expression of it through epigenetics as far I understand.
Can gene or stem cell therapy be used in the treatment of immune disorders such as Common Variable Immune Disorder / Primary Immune Disorder? Thanks :)
Do cat whiskers and human facial hair have anything in common as of their uses?
Is it possible to use gene and/or stem cell therapies to enhance the thinking capacities of the brain?
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