Intracellular Immunization

New Tool Boosts Gene Therapies for AIDS

Published in Vaccine Weekly, September 4th, 1995

An Australian research team has put a powerful new tool into the hands of researchers developing gene therapies and DNA vaccines for AIDS.

The new tool provides a rapid means of growing cultures of gene-transfected primary human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs). It permits the in vitro evaluation of gene therapies in cells directly relevant to those infected with HIV. Current assays use transformed T-cell lines developed for laboratory use.

Moreover, modification of the new system provides a way to grow pure cultures of genetically engineered cells for therapeutic use.

Researchers Lun Quan Sun, Geoff Symonds, and colleagues...

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