A new UCLA-led study suggests that advanced genome editing technology could be used as a one-time treatment for the rare and deadly genetic disease CD3 delta severe combined immunodeficiency. The ...

Researchers headed by teams at Newcastle University, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and the Great North Children’s Hospital have identified a single gene mutation common to 11 pediatric patients with ...

A genetic mutation found in two human patients with schizophrenia also increased schizophrenia-related behaviors in mice with the same mutation, a rare finding of a direct genetic link to psychosis, ...

The dietary effect of phytosterols (PS) versus cholesterol on the growth and metastasis of the PC-3 human prostate cancer cells in SCID mice was studied. Also, their direct effect on the growth and ...

Mutations in a handful of genes can cause severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), which severely disrupts the body's ability to fight infection. The condition is typically fatal in the first year of ...

Correlatoin of apoptosis signaling in primary pediatric BCP-ALL xenograft cells with the kinetics of engraftment in vivo in a NOD/SCID model and patient outcome No significant financial relationships ...