Items Tagged ‘congenital heart disease’

January 28, 2021

First hybrid gene therapy shows early promise in treating long QT syndrome

By Colette Gallagher Colette Gallagher (@colettegallagher)

In a new study published in Circulation, Mayo Clinic researchers provide the first preclinical, proof-of-concept study for hybrid gene therapy in long QT syndrome, a potentially lethal heart rhythm condition. Researchers demonstrated its potential therapeutic efficacy in two in vitro model systems using beating heart cells reengineered from the blood samples of patients with type […]

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Tags: #Dr. Michael Ackerman, #gene therapy, #News release, Circulation, congenital heart disease, Genetics, long QT syndrome, mayo clinic, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, Minnesota News Releases


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