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Researchers at University of Pittsburgh Have Published New Data on Gene Therapy

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, April 7th, 2011

2011 APR 7 -- According to recent research from Pittsburgh, United States, "Telomerase is a particular reverse transcriptase that not only synthesizes and maintains the telomere but also promotes the proliferation of resting cells and prevents cellular senescence. The advantages of the Sleeping Beauty transposon system include prolonged transgene expression without eliciting an immunogenic response, no possibility of RCV and ease of construction."

"Tissue-specific therapeutic gene expression is extremely important in gene therapy, because non-specific expression can cause an immune response of the transduced cells that can severely limit the stability of...

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