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Gene Therapy
Data on gene therapy detailed by researchers at San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy
June 24th, 2008
New research, 'Human hematopoietic stem cells in gene therapy: pre-clinical and clinical issues,' is the subject of a report. According to recent research from Milan, Italy, "Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSC) have been widely used in allogeneic transplant procedures, therefore their intrinsic characteristics, the biology of their niche in the bone marrow, and the mobilization and homing processes have been extensively investigated. With the development of gene therapy strategies, new therapeutic options based on autologous HSC have become available which may reduce the morbidity and mortality associated to allogeneic transplantation, but require an ex vivo manipulation of the...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-06-24)
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