Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . February 24th, 1997
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Gene Delivery - Improved Cationic Lipid Formulations Increase Efficiency, Physical Stability
Cardiovascular - Adv-Mediated Transfer of hsp70i Protects Against Ischemia
AIDS Therapies (Clinical Trials) - GEM 91 Moves Into Confirmatory Trial in Advanced HIV Patients
Cancer Gene Therapy - p53 Trials Expanded to Europe and Japan
Cancer Gene Therapy (Chemokines) - MIP-1(alpha) Gene Transfer Reduced Tumorigenicity and Induced Protective Immunity
Drug Development - Isis Pharmaceuticals Touts New Drug Therapies
Genetics - Gene for Maleness Discovery Wins Amory Prize
Hearing Disorders - First Step in Gene Therapy Reported
Immunology - Enzyme Linked to Immune Response in HIV and Other Diseases
Immunology (HIV) - Loss of Hematopoietic Cells in HIV Patients Is Not Due to Infection
Industry News (Joint Venture) - Developmental Research Funded at Massachusetts General Hospital
Industry News (Joint Venture) - Gene Therapy-Based HIV Immunotherapeutic Trials Expanded
Industry News (Patents and Technology) - Patent Issued for Gene Implicated in Stem Cell Differentiation
Monoclonal Antibodies - Transgenic Production of Antibodies Announced
Rheumatoid Arthritis - Gene Expression Evidence Demonstrated in Arthritis Patient
Suicide Gene Therapy - Liver Toxicity Associated with Adv-Mediated HSV-tk/GCV Gene Therapy
Cardiovascular Gene Therapy - "Gene Therapy with Recombinant Human apo A-1 Adenovirus Inhibits Neointima Formation after Endothelial Denudation in apo E Knock Out mice."
Cardiovascular Gene Therapy - "Local Adventitial VEGF Gene Transfer Reduces Neointima Formation in Rabbit Carotid Arteries."
Chemotherapy (Clinical Trials) - "GM-CSF Priming in the Therapy of De-Novo AML Patients: an Update of a Double-Blind Randomized, Placebo Controlled Trial."
Chemotherapy (Cost Evaluation) - "Economic Evaluation of G-CSF Use in the Therapy of Adult Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)."
Gene Transfer (Adenoviral Vectors) - "Inefficient Infection of Primitive Hematopoietic Precursors Cells (CD34+) Using CMV Driven Adenoviral Vectors (ad-v)."
Malaria Vaccines - "Safety, Immunogenicity and Efficacy of a Plasmodium falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein-Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Subunit Vaccine (RTS,S)."
Malaria Vaccines - "Use of a Rhesus Model to Optimize Formulations and Dosing Regimens of the Candidate Falciparum Malaria Vaccine, RTS,S."
Antisense Technology - "Accessibility of Nuclear DNA to Triplex-Forming Oligonucleotides: The Integrated HIV-1 Provirus as a Target."
Antisense Technology - "Treatment of Philadelphia Leukemia in Severe Combined Immunodeficient Mice by Combination of Cyclophosphamide and bcr/abl Antisense Oligodeoxynucleotides."
Cardiology - "Transplantation of Genetically Marked Cardiac Muscle Cells."
Cystic Fibrosis - "Loss of Binding and Entry of Liposome-DNA Complexes Decreases Transfection Efficiency in Differentiated Airway Epithelial Cells."
Gene Delivery - "Transgenic Studies with a Keratin Promoter-Driven Growth Hormone Transgene: Prospects for Gene Therapy."
Gene Transduction - "High-Efficiency Transduction of Human Lymphoid Progenitor Cells and Expression in Differentiated T Cells."
Vector Development - "A Novel 165-Base-Pair Terminal Repeat Sequence Is the Sole cis Requirement for the Adeno-Associated Virus Life Cycle."
Vector Development - "Complementation of a Primer Binding Site-Impaired Murine Leukemia Virus-Derived Retroviral Vector by a Genetically Engineered tRNA-Like Primer."
Vector Development - "Tracking and Quantitation of Retroviral-Mediated Transfer using a Completely Humanized, Red-Shifted Green Fluorescent Protein Gene."
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