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Gene Therapy Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . February 5th, 2004

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Protease Inhibitor - Shipments begin of plant-produced recombinant aprotinin product

Pulmonary Medicine - Gene transfer improves lung liquid clearance in ventilation models

Respiratory Syncytial Virus - Vaccine elicits immune response against respiratory syncytial virus

Severe Combined Immune Deficiency - Unusual leukemia caused by rare combination of genes

Cystic Fibrosis - Serial doses of aerosolized viral vector do well in nonhuman primates

Sickle-Cell Disease - Clinical compound rPSGL-Ig licensed for development and commercialization

Spinal Muscular Atrophy - FSMA, genetics company, open screening capabilities to third-party compounds

Stem-Cell Research - Acute myeloid leukemia fusion proteins deregulate maintenance and repair genes

Tumor Suppression - A recombinant fragment of thrombospondin-2 halts VEGF-induced tumor growth

Vector Development - Deoxyribonuclease II cripples nonviral transfection

Virology - New techniques purify adeno-associated virus type 5 with less work

Weight Loss - Study suggests dieters shouldn't give up - slimming hormone waits to be unleashed

Endocrinology - Arginine-vasopressin offers persistent correction of diabetes insipidus

Gene Transfer - The novel peptide NLSV40 encourages DNA accumulation after transfection

Neurology - Fibroblast growth factor-2 gene delivery regenerates adult axon growth

Adenovirus - Analysis of CD8+ T-cell response after adenovirus vaccination presented

Antimicrobial Resistance - ABC multidrug efflux pump identified in Enterococcus faecalis

Botulinum Neurotoxin - $1.1M contract awarded to study counter-bioterrorism vaccine

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