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Diagnostics, Methodologies and Instrumentation
, Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
by ruth on November 22, 2006
"We found that we can use this agent safely and we also saw evidence in the patients' blood that the higher doses successfully introduced the vector DNA. In one patient we saw evidence for a very brief period that some of the alpha-1 protein was being produced, but not at a high enough level to be beneficial."
Succeeding trials aim to test the therapy with a different version of the adeno-associated virus which showed more potency in animal trials. The results of the abovementioned study were published online in Human Gene Therapy.
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In October, I posted about how rescue workers from the World Trade Center were being diagnosed with Alpha-1, an inherited lung and liver disease that is suspected to be much more prevalent than once thought. You don't hear about Alpha-1 very often R...
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