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For the first time, scientists have managed to restore hearing in a living mammal by using gene therapy to regenerate the delicate hair cells of the inner ear.

Replacing the dysfunctional or deficient gene with a functional copy has been achieved by administering the functional protein (Escobar 2013) and more recently by using gene therapy (Gaudet et al. 2013).

This level of mTERT protein over-expression achieved by using gene therapy vectors is in the same range of mTERT over-expression reached by classical mouse transgenesis, including the long-lived Sp53/Sp16/SARF/TgTERT mouse model (Flores et al, 2006; Gonzalez-Suarez et al, 2001; Tomas-Loba et al, 2008).

A strategy attempted to achieve significant radioiodine uptake by the BC cells is using gene therapy to introduce an "active" exogenous NIS gene.

Downstream signaling of GFRs can be abrogated by (1) inhibition of receptor expression using gene therapy (antisense approach), (2) antagonistic monoclonal antibodies (mAb) that prevent binding of ligands to receptors, or (3) pharmacologic (low-molecular weight) receptor-selective tyrosine kinase inhibitors (RTKIs).

But now a new approach promises to solve the problem by sidestepping the immune system altogether, instead using gene therapy to produce immune molecules that neutralize the virus.

Although stem cell transplants are not a feasible therapy for most people with HIV, that does not diminish excitement about the new case in the research community, which has become interested in using gene therapy to disable the CCR5 gene by using other technologies, including the gene-editing technology CRISPR.

The plan by Cortese and co would build upon the study of human aging, by making some cells radio-resistant, like some types of bacteria, using gene therapy.

Researchers are also using gene therapy to treat dogs with hemophilia, a bleeding disorder in both canines and people that's caused by a genetic mutation.

The study opens new avenues for using gene therapy to treat brain diseases, said Dr. Theodore Friedmann, a gene therapy pioneer at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine.

Attempts at treating the disease using gene therapy — putting correct copies of the gene into the lungs — did not work.