LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have managed to halt a rare and fatal brain disease with an experimental gene therapy technique using a deactivated ...
French scientists appear to halt rare brain disease in 2 boys with new gene therapy approach French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone ...
After a three-year trial, a South Korean court is Monday due to pass judgement on a scientist hailed as a national hero until his apparently landmark stem cell research was ruled to be fake. Prosecutors have demanded a four-year jail term for ...
Exhilarated scientists on Saturday announced they had used gene therapy to restore eyesight to children blighted by a rare, inherited form of creeping blindness. Youngsters were able to walk unaided around dimly-lit obstacles, take part in lessons at school without extra help ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The world needs genetically modified crops both to increase food yields and minimize the environmental impact of farming, Britain's top science academy said on Wednesday. The Royal Society said in a report the world faced a "grand challenge" to ...
India is to hold a public consultation on genetically modified aubergines, which were cleared by regulators this week but await final government approval, an official said Friday. The transgenic vegetable, also known as the eggplant or brinjal, which has been altered to ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - The fight to end hunger is being hurt by environmentalists who insist that genetically modified crops cannot be used in Africa, Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of software giant Microsoft, said on Thursday. Gates said GMO crops, ...
The EU Commission stressed Thursday that health and environmental factors were foremost in approving genetically modified foodstuffs, while protesting farmers and environmentalists called for an outright ban. "GMOs (genetically modified organisms) are one of the most sensitive dossiers on my desk," EU ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Long-term tests on monkeys using Oxford BioMedica's gene therapy ProSavin suggest it can treat Parkinson's disease without causing the jerky, involuntary movements associated with current drugs, researchers said on Wednesday. Parkinson's is caused by lack of the brain chemical ...
Indian regulators approved on Wednesday the introduction of genetically modified aubergines, potentially making them the first transgenic vegetable to be grown on local farms, a top official told AFP. The much-awaited clearance by the state-run Genetically Engineering Appraisal Committee could lead to ...
In this photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, farmer Paul Schlagel, 54, second from right, talks about Roundup Ready beets during a meeting on Famuer Rasmussen Jr.'s , left, farm near Longmont, Colo. Jason Adler, 34, second from left, and Craig ...
Environmentalists dressed as giant ears of corn Tuesday asked for "agricultural asylum" in the French embassy in Madrid in a protest over genetically modified crops. The environmental organisation Friends of the Earth organised the symbolic act to protest Spain's "large-scale" production of ...
