France – the team of Pr Aubourg of the Saint-Vincent-of-Paul hospital of Paris succeeded in slowing down the evolution of a serious cerebral disease, the adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). This rare genetic disease affects the brain of the young children in good health.
The researchers used a combination of gene therapy and cell therapy to slow the progression of the disease in two children suffering from ALD. Nearly three years after the disease progression was slowed and no side effects were observed.
The ALD mainly affects boys between 5 and 12 years. A defective …

Scientists from the Institute of stem cells at the University of Connecticut offered to fight with colon cancer, as well as other types of cancer using a new vaccine, created on the basis of stem cells. Generally the cancer and stem cells has many similar molecular and biological traits.
The process of treatment will be as follows. After producing the vaccine using human stem cells, doctors will be able to deceive the immune system, which will think that the cancer cells are already present in the body, and starts the immune …

The team of Dr. Klatzmann of the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris has discovered that in the early days of cancer development, the human immune system does not recognize these cells as cells to be eliminated, but as normal cells to be protect.
The premise of “the immunosurveillance” Cancer by the immune system has been an idea formulated by scientists a century back. Under this assumption, the immune system would be able to treat the cancer cells as abnormal and to eliminate them.
The Study by the team of Dr. …

Because of the complexity and cost of chromosome analysis, its use is ordinarily limited to cases with specific indications. Apart from the specific phenotypes, in which chromosome analysis is a standard part of clinical evaluation, there are also some nonspecific general clinical indications that suggest a need for cytogenetic analysis:
1. A number of problems of early growth and development. Failure to thrive, developmental delay, dysmorphic facies, multiple malformations, short stature, ambiguous genitalia, and mental retardation are frequent findings in children with chromosome abnormalities, although not restricted to that group. Unless …

France – The team of Joel Drevet, CNRS unit, at the University of Clermont-Ferrand has identified an antioxidant protein (GPx5) that protects the immature sperm as they leave the testicle.
Sperm formed in the testicles, acquire the ability to fertilize in the epididymis, where they complete their maturation. At this stage of maturation, the weakest sperm is subject to an oxidative stress that can damage their DNA. The researchers discovered that the GPx5 protein, produced in the tissues of the epididymis, partly protects the spermatozoa from this stress during their maturation …