News: Researchers Use Gene Therapy To Restore Hearing In Deaf Mice |
A team of researchers at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital reported back in 2015 that they were able to restore rudimentary hearing in genetically deaf mice using gene therapy. The Boston Children's hospital research team recently reports that they have restored a much higher level of hearing - down to 25 decibels, the equivalent of a whisper. They used an improved gene therapy vector developed at Massachusetts Eye and Ear. Although previous vectors have only been able to penetrate the cochlea's inner hair cells, the first Nature Biotechnology study reveals that a new synthetic vector, "Anc80," is capable of transferring genes to the inaccessible outer hair cells when introduced into the cochlea. Read more... |
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6 - 8 March 2017, International Society for BioProcess Technology 7th Spring Meeting - Viral vectors and vaccines, Washington, DC |
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13 - 14 March 2017, Oncolytic Virotherapy Europe Congress 2017, London, UK |
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16 - 17 March 2017, Spring Symposium of the Netherlands Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (NVGCT), Lunteren, The Netherlands |
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17 March 2017, British Society for Gene and Cell Therapy (BSGCT) Public Engagement 2017, Oxford, UK |
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27 - 28 March 2017, 6th International Conference and Exhibition on Cell and Gene Therapy, Madrid, Spain |
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29 - 30 March 2017, 19th International Conference on Cell and Gene Therapy - ICCGT 2017, Singapore |
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19 - 21 April 2017, Annual conference of the British Society for Gene and Cell Therapy (BSGCT), Cardiff, Wales, UK |
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3 - 6 May 2017,International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT) 23th Annual Meeting, London, UK |
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10 - 11 May 2017, Genome Editing & Advances in Transgenic Technology USA Congress, Boston, MA |
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10 - 13 May 2017, American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) 20th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC |
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14 - 19 May 2017, Gordon Research Conference: Virusses & Cells, Lucca, Italy |
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17 - 19 May 2017, World Advanced Therapies and Regenerative Medicine Congress 2017, London, UK |
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24 - 26 May 2017, 10th Australasian Gene Therapy Society Meeting (AGCTS), Sydney, Australia |
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8 - 9 June 2017, 2nd Edition of Biorpocessing of Advance Cellular Therapies Congress, London, UK |
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26 - 27 June 2017, Cell Culture and Cell Therapy: Bioprocessing Conference, Philidelphia, PA |
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20 - 22 July 2017, The 23th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Gene Therapy (JSGT), Okayama City, Japan |
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24 - 25 August 2017, Gene Therapy Bioproduction Conference, Boston, MA |
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31 August - 1 September 2017, 2nd International Conference on Nucleic Acids, Molecular Biology & Biologics Conference, Philadelphia, PA |
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17 – 20 October 2017, XXV Congress of the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT), Berlin, Germany |
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9 - 10 November 2017, 3rd Annual Genome Editing Congress, London, UK |
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9 - 10 November 2017, 3rd Annual Cell & Gene Therapy Congress, London, UK |
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15 - 17 November 2017, 16th Annual Gene Therapy Symposium for Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases, Sonoma, California |
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