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Gene Therapy Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . October 2nd, 2003

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

Related Areas: Other Issues in Gene Therapy Weekly | Other Publications

HIV Therapy - Phase I trial of autologous VRX496 modified T cells deemed safe

Heart Block - Can we make a new sinus node?

Hematology - Negative selection augments the characterization of bone marrow derivatives

Immunology - CpG motifs can be programmed to stimulate specific immune system activities

Immunotherapy - Divergent virology can affect the outcome of ex vivo T-cell expansion

Lung Cancer - Data published showing effectiveness of DNA enzyme expression technology

Metastatic Cancer - Company gets patents for TNFerade and TNF product candidates targeting

Neurosicence - Gene therapy may prevail in the fight to cure neurological diseases

Patents - U.S. patent granted covering technologies directed to microbial enrichment

Prostate Cancer - Calpain-2 could be targeted to prevent malignant tumor invasion

Proteomics - Antisense DNA plasmids target enzyme to disable cytokine-driven inhibition

RNA Research - Hairpin RNAs and retrotransposon LTRs can mediate RNAi-, chromatin-based gene silencing

Transgenics - FISH and SKY analysis should be used to ensure genome stability in transgenic mice

Tumor Diagnosis - Technitium-99m probes provide an important way to image tumor gene expression

Vaccine Development - Production of recombinant botulinum protein vaccine candidate reported

Vector Development - Recombinant chemokine gene therapy diminishes tumor growth

Viral Genomics - Evolutionary adaptation enabled Tupaia adenovirus to expand host potential

Virology - Encapsulated Semliki Forest virus shows promise for tumor targeting

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