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Genetics and Health

May 29th, 2008

Nanotechnology and gene p53

P52 gene, arrows show locations of common mutations 
(Image courtesy www.bioinf.org)
Following on from my last article on using gene therapy for increasing survival in head and neck cancer, Professor Jack Roth, M.D., professor in M. D. Anderson’s Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery and colleagues are now focusing on ways to deliver p53 and other tumor-suppressing genes […]

By Elaine -- 1 comment

May 29th, 2008

Gene therapy increases survival for head and neck cancer

Thank you to Jennifer Texada at MD Anderson for bringing this great cancer treatment discovery to my attention….
(Image courtesy Introgen Therapeutics)
A gene therapy invented at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is the first to succeed in a U.S. phase III clinical trial for cancer.  Introgen Therapeutics, Inc a spin out from MD […]

By Elaine -- 2 comments