From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 21:04:27 MDT
The NY Times has an interesting article about a possible case
of gene therapies using retroviruses causing a leukemia like
condition.
Trials Halted on a Gene Therapy
Sheryl Gay Stolberg
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/04/health/04GENE.html?pagewanted=print
Of course as the article points out retroviruses are a really blunt
edged tool to do this kind of work with. Much better will be Epstein-Barr
based vectors that do not need to integrate into chromosomes or vectors
that can integrate at precise locations.
Robert
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